U.S. life expectancy hit record high
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Life expectancy hits all-time high at 79 years in 2024 as U.S. drug overdose deaths decline by 26.2%, reports CDC data.
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US life expectancy climbed to 79 as overdoses eased, but gaps stayed wide
“It’s pretty much good news all the way around,” as final federal statistics indicated that Americans could expect to live longer than ever, on average, National Center for Health Statistics researcher Robert Anderson said.
The average life expectancy in the U.S. has been on the decline for three consecutive years. A baby born in 2017 is expected to live to be 78.6 years old, which is down from 78.7 the year before, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and ...
American life expectancy dipped for a second consecutive year in 2016. This decline was once again largely fueled by soaring rates of opioid overdose deaths, according to two reports from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics released Thursday.
After more than a century of steady progress, new research warns that the world’s life expectancy boom is slowing, largely because improvements in early-life mortality have already been achieved. Study: Cohort mortality forecasts indicate signs of ...
A recent research letter published July 9 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), titled “The Failure of Life Expectancy to Fully Rebound to Prepandemic Levels,” paints a damning picture of the public health crisis in California, the ...
A new analysis published on medRxiv reveals that life expectancy in the U.S. continues to decline. In 2021, life spans decreased by another 0.4 years. In 2020, life expectancy decreased by 1.9 years as COVID-19 spread throughout the country. Researchers ...