MIAMI – Life expectancy in the United States dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling to the lowest it has been since 1996.
That’s according to final mortality data published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.
COVID-19 was a major contributor to the decline in life expectancy, which is now nearly two and a half years shorter than it was at the start of the pandemic. After a drop of 1.8 years in 2020, another cut of 0.6 years last year brought US life expectancy down to 76.4 years in 2021.
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