Life expectancy gaps in the United States have widened dramatically over the past two decades, with disparities across racial ...

U.S. life expectancy jumped last year ... But most of them occurred in 2020 and 2021, before vaccination- and infection-induced immunity became widespread. The coronavirus was once the nation ...

After large drops during the pandemic, life expectancy in the United States should recover to 2019 levels this year ...

The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on mortality in the United States shows that life expectancy at birth ... significant declines in 2020 and 2021, owing to the COVID ...

Life expectancy in the United States jumped in 2023, and preliminary data suggests there may be another — much smaller — improvement in 2024.

Similarly, in the United States, life expectancy for smokers is estimated to be at least 10 years shorter than for nonsmokers, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

you’re preventing further loss of life expectancy.” While smoking rates have declined over the 2000s, it remains the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States.

(Photo by Alexander Spatari/Getty Images) After large drops during the pandemic, life expectancy in the United States should recover ... 1.8 years between 2019 and 2020, from 79.1 to 77.3 years.