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Average life expectancy in us 201412/4/2023 Life expectancy at birth represents the average number of years a group of infants would live if they were to experience throughout life the age-specific death rates prevailing during a specified period. Trends in Life Expectancy by Race/Ethnicity These recent stark declines and widening racial disparities in life expectancy amplify the importance of addressing underlying drivers of these disparities, including inequities in health insurance coverage and access to care and social and economic factors that drive health. Although COVID-19 mortality was a primary contributor to the recent decrease in life expectancy across groups, leading causes of death vary by race and ethnicity. These declines were largely due to COVID-19 deaths and reflect the disproportionate burden of excess deaths, including premature excess deaths (before age 75), among people of color during the pandemic.Data were not reported for Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (NHOPI) people. It was highest for Asian people at 83.5 years. Reflecting these declines, provisional data for 2021 show that life expectancy was lowest for AIAN people at 65.2 years, followed by Black people, whose expectancy was 70.8 years, compared with 76.4 years for White people and 77.7 years for Hispanic people.American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) people experienced the largest decline in life expectancy of 6.6 years during this time, followed by Hispanic and Black people (4.2 and 4.0 years, respectively). There was a sharp drop-off in life expectancy between 20, with particularly large declines among some groups.This analysis examines trends in life expectancy and leading causes of death by race and ethnicity and discusses the factors that contribute to racial disparities in life expectancy. It also exacerbated longstanding racial disparities in life expectancy and mortality within the U.S., contributing to excess deaths and increased costs. and other comparably large and wealthy countries. This decline further widened the existing gap in life expectancy between the U.S. declined 2.7 years between 20, from 78.8 years to 76.1 years, marking the largest two-year decline in life expectancy since the 1920’s. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, life expectancy in the U.S.
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