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With a few notable exceptions—such as during the 1918 influenza pandemic, World War II and the HIV crisis—life expectancy in the U.S. has had gradual upward trajectory over the past century. But that progress has steeply reversed in the past two years as COVID and other tragedies have cut millions of lives short.

U.S. life expectancy fell by a total of 2.7 years between 2019 and 2021 to 76.1 years—the lowest it has been since 1996, according to provisional data recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The drop was 3.1 years for male individuals and 2.3 years for female ones. Non-Hispanic Native American and Alaska Native peoples saw the biggest decline—a staggering 6.6 years. But every racial and ethnic group suffered: life expectancy decreased by 4.2 years in the Hispanic population, by four years in the non-Hispanic Black population, by 2.4 years in the non-Hispanic white population and by 2.1 years in the non-Hispanic Asian population.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... xpectancy/

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What is the life expectancy of China in 2022?

77.30 years

China passes US life expectancy for first time.

https://www.newsweek.com/china-us-life- ... ck-1740991

USA USA USA USA

[Morgan Le Fey]

Are you cheerleading China? lol!

I am not surprised at all though, there was a massive drop related to lack of CoVid safety during the heart of the Pandemic too. We'll see if this winter brings on a new wave or not.

Regardless its hard to argue from a humanitarian standpoint alone that China hasn't handled the Pandemic better than anyone. The ability to simply "halt the economy for the greater good" is impressive, though the West predictably harps on lost productivity.