A new analysis has revealed a disappointing drop in Americans’ life expectancy. The average person born in the US in 2021 can now be expected to live for 76.1 years—the shortest lifespan recorded since 1996.
(...) With its 2.7-year decline, the provisional life expectancy for those born in 2021 marks the biggest drop in average lifespan for nearly a century. For people of some ethnic groups, this drop is even worse. American Indian and Alaskan Native people’s life expectancy dropped by 6.6 years between 2019 and 2021—a major loss especially when compared with white and Asian people’s life expectancies, which dropped by 2.4 years and 2.1 years respectively. In every single ethnic category, the male life expectancy dropped significantly more than that of the female.
US Life Expectancy Falls to Lowest Level Since 1996 - ExtremeTech (on September 2, 2022 at 11:46 am).
The average person born in the US in 2021 can now be expected to live for 76.1 years, following a 2.7-year decline in average lifespan.
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