Life Expectancy In The United States Decreased Further In 2021 Due To Covid 19

Life expectancy in the United States fell in 2021 to the lowest since 1996, the second year of a historic decline due to deaths from COVID-19, provisional government data showed on Wednesday. The nearly one-year decline from 2020 to 76.1 years marked the largest two-year drop in life expectancy at birth in nearly a century, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found. The gap in life expectancy between men and women also widened last year to the highest in two decades, with men now expected to live 73.2 years, nearly six years less than women. Deaths from COVID-19 accounted for half of the overall decline in life expectancy last year, with drug overdoses and heart disease also major contributors, the data showed. COVID-19 was linked to more than 460,000 deaths in the US in 2021, according to the CDC. U.S. life expectancy in 2020 saw its biggest one-year decline since World War II, with COVID-related deaths contributing nearly 75 percent of the decline. “Mortality was a little bit better in 2022 than it was in 2020, so I think it’s possible we’ll see maybe a slight increase in life expectancy,” said Robert Anderson, chief of mortality statistics at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. But life expectancy this year is unlikely to return to pre-pandemic levels, and many are riding on what will happen toward the end of the year because deaths typically spike during the winter months, Anderson said. While deaths by suicide declined in 2020, they were the fifth largest contributor to the decline in overall life expectancy last year. Suicide-related deaths were the third leading factor in reducing life expectancy for men. The data represent early estimates and have several limitations, the agency noted, including the difference in the time required by different jurisdictions to submit death certificates. Sign up for it Fact sheet on the coronavirus to read the day’s top coronavirus news, features and explanations written by Globe reporters and editors.

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Life expectancy in the United States fell in 2021 to the lowest since 1996, the second year of a historic decline due to deaths from COVID-19, provisional government data showed on Wednesday. The nearly one-year decline from 2020 to 76.1 years marked the largest two-year drop in life expectancy at birth in nearly a century, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found. The gap in life expectancy between men and women also widened last year to the highest in two decades, with men now expected to live 73.2 years, nearly six years less than women. Deaths from COVID-19 accounted for half of the overall decline in life expectancy last year, with drug overdoses and heart disease also major contributors, the data showed. COVID-19 was linked to more than 460,000 deaths in the US in 2021, according to the CDC. U.S. life expectancy in 2020 saw its biggest one-year decline since World War II, with COVID-related deaths contributing nearly 75 percent of the decline. “Mortality was a little bit better in 2022 than it was in 2020, so I think it’s possible we’ll see maybe a slight increase in life expectancy,” said Robert Anderson, chief of mortality statistics at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. But life expectancy this year is unlikely to return to pre-pandemic levels, and many are riding on what will happen toward the end of the year because deaths typically spike during the winter months, Anderson said. While deaths by suicide declined in 2020, they were the fifth largest contributor to the decline in overall life expectancy last year. Suicide-related deaths were the third leading factor in reducing life expectancy for men. The data represent early estimates and have several limitations, the agency noted, including the difference in the time required by different jurisdictions to submit death certificates. Sign up for it Fact sheet on the coronavirus to read the day’s top coronavirus news, features and explanations written by Globe reporters and editors.