Between 2018 and 2020, the decrease in average life expectancy at birth in the U.S. was roughly 1.9 years \u2014 8.5 times the average decrease in 16 comparable countries, which was about 2.5 months. The decrease widened the gap between the U.S. and its peers to nearly 5 years, but the difference is much larger among Black and Hispanic Americans.<\/p>\n
Compared with white Americans, whose average life expectancy at birth dropped by about 1.4 years between 2018 and 2020, the average Hispanic American\u2019s decreased by just under 3.9 years. The average lifespan of a Black American decreased by 3.25 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are numbers we aren\u2019t at all used to seeing in this research; 0.1 years is something that normally gets attention in the field, so 3.9 years and 3.25 years and even 1.4 years is just horrible,\u201d Woolf said. \u201cWe haven\u2019t had a decrease of that magnitude since World War II.\u201d <\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n Between 2018-2020, the decrease in average life expectancy at birth in the U.S. was roughly 1.9 years \u2014 8.5 times the average decrease in 16 comparable countries, which was about 2.5 months. The difference is much larger among Black and Hispanic Americans. https:\/\/t.co\/RTKhb7jPGh<\/a><\/p>\n — NBC News (@NBCNews) June 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n