Life Expectancy in the US Continued to Fall in 2021

Life Expectancy , in the US Continued , to Fall in 2021.
In 2021, life expectancy in the United States
fell to its lowest level since 1996 following
the second year of the COVID pandemic.
Reuters reports that the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention found that the decline
put life expectancy at 76.1 years. .
2021 also broadened the disparity between men
and women the most in over two decades, with
men now expected to live six fewer years than women.
According to the data, deaths from COVID accounted
for half of the overall decline, with heart disease
and drug overdoses also contributing.
The CDC said that COVID
was associated with over
460,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2021.
Deaths from suicide were the
fifth-biggest contributor to the 2021
drop in overall life expectancy.
For men, suicide-related deaths
were the third leading contributor. .
In 2020, life expectancy in the U.S. experienced its largest one-year drop since WWII, with COVID accounting for almost 75% of the decline.
Mortality's been a little better in 2022
than it was in 2020, so I think it's likely
that we would see maybe a slight
increase in life expectancy, Robert Anderson, chief of mortality statistics at CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, via Reuters.
Robert Anderson of the CDC's National Center
for Health Statistics suggests that life expectancy
is unlikely to return to pre-pandemic levels.
Robert Anderson of the CDC's National Center
for Health Statistics suggests that life expectancy
is unlikely to return to pre-pandemic levels