Declining Life Expectancy

According toprovisional datafrom the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS),life expectancy inthe U.S. experienced a significant decline, decreasing by nearly a year from 2020 to 2021. This decrease, from 77.0 to 76.1 years, brought U.S. life expectancy to its lowest point since 1996. The decline of 0.9 years in 2021, combined with the 1.8-year drop in 2020, represents the most substantial two-year decline in life expectancy the U.S. has seen since 1921–1923. Furthermore,recent researchindicates that the U.S. now has a lower life expectancy compared to other industrialized countries.