US Life Expectancy

• ‘A dismal situation’: U.S. life expectancy drops for 2nd year in a row

  The estimated American lifespan has shortened by nearly three years, to 76 years, one month.

  World

  Sep 1, 2022
  
• U.S. life expectancy fell by 1.5 years in 2020, largely thanks to COVID-19: CDC

  Deaths from COVID-19 contributed to nearly three-fourths, or 74 per cent, of the decline and drug overdoses were also a major contributor, the CDC said.

  Health

  Jul 21, 2021
  
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• More Americans are dying in middle age, and it’s pulling down U.S. life expectancy

  Drug overdoses, alcohol abuse and suicide are all behind a recent decline in U.S. life expectancy, a new study has found.

  Health

  Nov 27, 2019
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• More people died of suicide in the U.S. last year than in at least 50 years: CDC

  For decades, U.S. life expectancy was on the upswing, rising a few months nearly every year. Now it’s trending the other way.

  Health

  Nov 29, 2018
• Surge of opioid overdose deaths cuts U.S. life expectancy

  For the first time, the powerful painkiller fentanyl and its close opioid cousins played a bigger role in overdose deaths than any other legal or illegal drug.

  Health

  Dec 21, 2017