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U.S. Life Expectancy Falls for Second Straight Year

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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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Study: US Life Expectancy Continues Historic Decline With Another Drop in 2021

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Life expectancy in the United States took another hit in 2021, furthering a dramatic decline from 2020 that was the largest since World War II, according to a new report.

The study — published Thursday on the preprint server medRxiv, which means it has not been peer-reviewed — found that after falling nearly 1.9 years in 2020, life expectancy in the US decreased another 0.4 years in 2021.

In the decade before the pandemic, life expectancy in the US changed by an average of less than 0.1 years annually, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. . .

Life expectancy in the US fell from 78.9 years in 2019 to 76.6 years in 2021 — now more than five years less than the average among peer nations. (Read more from “Study: US Life Expectancy Continues Historic Decline With Another Drop in 2021” HERE)

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Here Are the States With the Highest and Lowest Life Expectancies

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New Yorkers have the third-longest life expectancy in the US, while those born in the South have fewer years, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Overall, Americans are expected to live an average of 78.7 years, the report published Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics, a branch of the CDC, found.

The state with the lowest life expectancy was West Virginia, whose residents live an average of 74.4 years.

Rounding out the bottom 10 states were Mississippi (74.6), Alabama (75.1), Kentucky (75.3), Tennessee (75.5), Louisiana (75.6), Oklahoma (75.6), Arkansas (75.6), South Carolina (76.5) and Missouri (76.6). . .

On the other end of the spectrum, Hawaii fared the best – with an average life expectancy of 81 years – followed by California (80.8), New York (80.5), Minnesota (80.5), Connecticut (80.4), Massachusetts (80.1), Washington state (80), Colorado (80), New Jersey (79.8) and Rhode Island (79.8). (Read more from “Here Are the States With the Highest and Lowest Life Expectancies” HERE)

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U.S. Life Expectancy up for First Time in Four Years

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Life expectancy rose in the U.S. in 2018 for the first time in four years, according to data released Thursday by the Center for Disease Control (CDC).

Life expectancy increased that year from 78.6 to 78.7 years, according to the report. The decline in life expectancy over the past three years was largely due to a spike in overdose deaths, which declined in 2018.

67,367 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2018, down 4.1% from 2017. This marks the first time since 1999 that overdose related deaths declined in the U.S. (Read more from “U.S. Life Expectancy up for First Time in Four Years” HERE)

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US Life Expectancy Falls AGAIN, Worst Record in Over 50 Years

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Life expectancy in the United States has dropped again following last year’s decline, which marked the first downturn in more than two decades.

On average, Americans can now expect to live 78.6 years, a statistically significant drop of 0.1 year, according to a report on 2016 data published Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics. Women can now expect to live a full five years longer than men: 81.1 years vs. 76.1 years . . .

“I still don’t think you can call it a trend, because you really need more than two data points to call something a trend,” said Bob Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “But it’s certainly concerning to see this two years in a row.” . . .

“We have data for almost half of 2017 at this point. It’s still quite provisional, but it suggests that we’re in for another increase” in drug-related deaths, he said. “If we’re not careful, we could end up with declining life expectancy for three years in a row, which we haven’t seen since the Spanish flu, 100 years ago.” (Read more from “US Life Expectancy Falls AGAIN, Worst Record in Over 50 Years” HERE)

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Live In The South? Your Life Expectancy Is Shorter, Sicker Than The Rest Of The U.S.

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Photo Credit: GettyIf you’re 65 and living in Hawaii, here’s some good news: Odds are you’ll live another 21 years. And for all but five of those years, you’ll likely be in pretty good health.

Hawaii tops the charts in the government’s first state-by-state look at how long Americans age 65 can expect to live, on average, and how many of those remaining years will be healthy ones.

Retirement-age Mississippians fared worst, with only about 17 1/2 more years remaining and nearly seven of them in poorer health.

U.S. life expectancy has been growing steadily for decades, and is now nearly 79 for newborns. The figures released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate life expectancy for people 65 years old, and what portion will be free of the illnesses and disabilities suffered late in life.

“What ultimately matters is not just the length of life but the quality of life,” said Matt Stiefel, who oversees population health research for Kaiser Permanente.

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