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US life expectancy falls in 2021 due to COVID-19

The decline in life expectancy is largely due to the pandemic. | Font: AFP

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Lifespan Americans fell during 2021 almost a year after falling by a year and a half in 2020, especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, United States health authorities said this Wednesday. USA.

The number was recorded at 76.1 last year, the lowest since 1996, according to preliminary figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

This is the biggest decline Lifespan two consecutive years from 1921 to 1923.

In 2020, the life expectancy of Americans was 77 years, and in 2019 it was 78.8 years.

“The decline in life expectancy since 2019 is largely due to the pandemic,” the CDC explained.

Death from COVID-19 they accounted for three-quarters of the decline in 2020 and half of the decline in 2021.

About 15% of the decline in life expectancy in 2021 could be attributed to an increase in deaths related to “accidents and unintentional injuries”, including overdoses.

The gap in life expectancy between men and women widened from 5.7 years in 2020 to 5.9 years in 2021, the largest since 1996.

American women have Lifespan 79.1 years in 2021 and men 73.2 years.

Most affected

Native American life expectancy has fallen the most in 2021 (-1.9 years compared to 2020), with an expectation of just 65.2 years; they are followed by whites (-1 year) with 76.4 years; and African Americans (-0.7 years) with 70.8 years.

COVID-19 has become the third leading cause of death in USA in 2021, as in 2020, after cardiovascular disease and cancer, according to an earlier CDC report.

Since the last surge in the winter of 2022, the number of deaths associated with COVID-19 They have dropped markedly in the United States, despite the fact that the country is still registering about 400 deaths a day, and in total more than a million people have died since the start of the pandemic. (AFP)


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