CDC: Life expectancy in US up, fewer deathsMIKE STOBBE
As the pandemic wound down, life expectancy in the United States began to bounce back in 2022, although deaths among children increased and drug overdose deaths continued to reach record highs, new government research shows. Ad Finaldatafor 2022 was published Thursday by the U.S Centers for Dise...
People born in 2023 are now estimated to live 78.4 years, according to the CDC. That’s still shy of the 78.8-year life expectancy from 2019, but it’s a significant improvement driven by lower death rates in each of the 10 leading causes of death. Ad Feedback Thedeath rate for Covid...
But it fell again by 0.9 year from 77.0 to 76.1 from 2020 to 2021. That was the lowest level recorded from birth since 1996, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That allowed 56 other countries on six continents to overtake US life expectancy rates. Several o...
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The CDC figures are based mainly on a review of 2017 death certificates. The life expectancy figure is based on current death trends and other factors. The agency also said: A baby born last year in the U.S. is expected to live about 78 years and 7 months, on average. An American ...
A new report from the CDC published Wednesday found life expectancy in the U.S. increased to 77.5 years in 2022 due to fewer deaths linked to COVID-19.
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For decades, U.S. life expectancy rose slightly nearly every year. But about a decade ago, the trend flattened and even declined some years — a stall blamed largely on overdose deaths and suicides. Then came the coronavirus, which has killedmore than 1.1 million peoplein the U.S. since ...
(AP) -- U.S. life expectancy has risen to a new high, now standing at nearly 78 years, the government reported Wednesday. The increase is due mainly to falling death rates in almost all the leading causes of death. The average life expectancy for babies