U.S. life expectancy fell by 2 yrs in 2020, sharpest drop among high-income peers

[Elderberry]

MSN By Mrinalika Roy 4/13/2022

 Life expectancy in the United States fell by nearly two years in 2020 to about 77 years amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the sharpest drop compared to 19 other high-income countries, according to a recent analysis.

Americans, on average, had a life expectancy of 76.99 years in 2020, down from 78.86 years in 2019, according to the study, which looked at national death and population counts in 2019 and 2020, as well as provisional data for 2021 to calculate mortality rate ratios.

The decline of 1.87 years in life expectancy for 2020 was far higher than the mean reduction of 0.57 years in 19 peer countries, including Canada, France, Germany, Denmark and South Korea. No country experienced a decrease as steep as that of the United States, according to the analysis, which was published as a preprint on the medRxiv website.

U.S. COVID-19 mortality and excess deaths were among the highest in the world and the virus was the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2020, after heart disease and cancer.

More: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/us-life-expectancy-fell-by-2-yrs-in-2020-sharpest-drop-among-high-income-peers/ar-AAWba8Y

[Wingnut]

What no mention of OD's from Chinese smuggled fentanyl laced drugs. Black killing blacks in blue cities?

[Smokin Joe]

What no mention of OD's from Chinese smuggled fentanyl laced drugs. Black killing blacks in blue cities?

Not just blacks, and not just in the cities.

I do wonder how much of that was suicides, ODs, and murder rate jumps in those jurisdictions.

[jmyrlefuller]

I know full well that at last checked the life expectancy of a U.S. citizen was around 75 years old, not 79, before COVID. So if it's 77 now, that number actually went up!

[Smokin Joe]

I know full well that at last checked the life expectancy of a U.S. citizen was around 75 years old, not 79, before COVID. So if it's 77 now, that number actually went up!

I'm not sure of your sources, but here goes with data in 5 year intervals from 1860 to 2020.

From 2010-2015 (this is a graph with 5 yr. data points) the life expectancy of a US citizen was nearly 79 years. The drop for 2015-2020 is less than 2 years, but that drop would be spread over the 5 year interval.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1040079/life-expectancy-united-states-all-time/

The other two declines in overall life expectancy came during the Civil War and the Spanish Flu.