US life expectancy dropped 1.5 years in 2020
Al JazeeraBlack and Hispanic Americans saw a more dramatic plunge, with life expectancy dropping by three years. Overall life expectancy in the United States fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II, health officials have said – but the decrease for Black Americans and Hispanic Americans was even worse, at three years. The drop is mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which health officials said is responsible for close to 74 percent of the overall life expectancy decline. While health officials have only tracked Hispanic life expectancy for the past 15 years, the 2020 decline was the largest recorded one-year drop. Drug overdoses pushed life expectancy down, particularly for whites, while rising homicides were a small but significant reason for the decline for Black Americans, said Elizabeth Arias, the report’s lead author.
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