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The CDC reports that the average life expectancy for Americans born in 2021 was about 76 years, four months. That’s the lowest the figure has been in more than 25 years and the second straight year t…
If the length of our lives is a good measure of our well-being, the U.S. is in some trouble.
U.S. life expectancy, already declining since the onset of the pandemic, fell further in 2021, according to the CDC’s final accounting of death certificates.
The numbers, released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, mark the second consecutive year of decline in average life expectancy, a streak that hasn't happened in more than a …
The average life expectancy for an American born in 2021 was just shy of 76 years and 5 months – more than half a year shorter than it was in 2020.