U.S. Life Expectancy Falls for Second Straight Year
The average life expectancy of people in the United States dropped for a second consecutive year in 2021, with the decline to 76 years and one month representing a fall of almost a full year from 2020, according to a government report released on Wednesday.
Among racial groups in the US, Asians had the highest life expectancy at 83 years and six months.
In the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the estimated US life span was shortened by nearly three years. The last comparable decrease happened in the early 1940s, during World War II.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials blamed the coronavirus for about half the decline in life expectancy in 2021, a year when vaccinations became widely available but new virus variants caused waves of hospitalizations and deaths.
Other contributors to the decline are long-standing maladies: drug overdoses, heart disease, suicide and chronic liver disease. (Read more from “U.S. Life Expectancy Falls for Second Straight Year” HERE)
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