A new report shows the pandemic and the overdose crisis helped push down the average life expectancy in the U.S. for a second year in a row. American life expectancy is now at its lowest in nearly ...

Among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, U.S. life expectancy does not even appear on the list of the top 20 countries.

American Life Expectancy Is Now at Its Lowest in Decades as COVID, Drug Overdose Deaths Rise A baby born in 2021 could expect to live to be 76.4, according to new data from the Centers for Disease ...

Women in the U.S. can expect to live shorter lives than women in similarly wealthy nations, according to a brief from the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit research group focused on health care. In ...

Women have a life expectancy of 79.3 years compared to the 73.5 years of men, and the gap between the sexes has continued to widen. In 2019, it was 76.3 for men and 81.4 for women. These ...

Alabama ranks third-lowest, with a life expectancy of 72 years. Chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension are widespread due to high obesity and smoking rates.

The average lifespan for Americans has dropped to the lowest level in 26 years. Life expectancy dropped to 76.4 years at birth, according to two new reports published by the CDC National Center ...

Americans born in southern states faced the lowest life expectancies in 2018, according to a new report issued by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Since 2000, the average life expectancy of many American Indians and Alaska Natives has been steadily shrinking. The same has been true since 2014 for Black people in low-income counties in the ...

The average life expectancy for Americans shortened by over seven months last year, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That decrease follows an already big ...

T he life expectancy among Native Americans in the western United States has dropped below 64 years, ... we’re going to have this very low life expectancy,” said Kathleen Harris, ...