U.S. life expectancy drops again, marking worst 2-year decline in a century
By Alexander Tin
August 31, 2022 / 12:02 AM / CBS News
U.S. life expectancy estimates have fallen to the worst levels since 1996, according to a new federal report, marking the second straight year of plummeting estimates in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health officials say the drop in life expectancy from 2019 to 2021 — falling by 2.7 years to 76.1 – is now the country’s worst two-year decline on record since 1923, according to provisional estimates published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.
The CDC Report.
www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr023.pdf