US life expectancy dropped by 1.8 years in 2020, final official figures showed yesterday — the steepest drop in more than 75 years, driven in large part by the COVID-19 pandemic. Life expectancy at birth was 77.0 years for the total US population last year, down from 78.8 years in 2019...
U.S. medical online journal Jama Network said in its latest edition that according to provisional life expectancy data from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, life expectancy dropped by 3 years to about 73 an...
(CNN)Life expectancy in the United States fell by a year and a half in 2020 primarily due to increases in death due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to early data released by the US Centers for D…
(The CDC's numbers do sometimes change. This week, CDC officials said they had revised their life expectancy estimate for 2016 after some additional data came in.) What's driving it? CDC officials did not speculate about what's behind declining life expectancy, but Dr. William Dietz, a di...
Life expectancy in the U.S. has gone up for the first time in four years as the number of fatal drug overdoses and six of the 10 leading causes of death declined, according to two new government reports.
Life expectancy is an estimate of the average number of years a baby born in a given year might be expected to live, given death rates at that time. It is "the most fundamental indicator of population health in this country", said Robert Hummer, a University of North Carolina researcher....
Life expectancy in the United States dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling to the lowest it has been since 1996, according to final mortality data published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Cent
Life expectancy in the United States is rising nearly as quickly as it fell at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic as deaths from Covid-19 and drug overdoses drop. After falling 2.4 years between 2019 and 2021, life expectancy rose by more than a year in 2022, and newdatafrom the US...
Researchers used the CDC standard formula to calculate years of potential life lost by subtracting the age of death from the standard age of 80, to represent the average US life expectancy of 78.7 years and then added the differences.研究人员使用美国疾控中心的标准公式计算潜在寿命损失年数，方法...
US life expectancy further declines, largely due to COVID-19Life expectancy in the United States has declined for the second consecutive year, reaching levels that have not been seen since 1996, according to provisional data from the CDC.Emma Bascom...