Life expectancy in the United States has dropped more than two full years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and is now at its lowest point since 1996.
from the National Center for Health Statistics, life expectancy dropped 6 months in 2021. This follows on the heels of an even larger one and a half year drop in 2020.
Decreases in infant mortality, improvements in healthcare and sanitation have helped life expectancy in the U.S. to rise steadily since the 1800′s. Throughout history, life expectancy has declined only 3 other times until now-- following the American Civil War, again after WWI and the Spanish flu epidemic, and finally in 2014 when life expectancy fell for three years in a row., and then to 76.4 in 2021.
These statistics are based on life expectancy from birth. At age 65, men are expected to live another 17 years and women another 19.7 years, with almost no change from the data in 2020.
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