U.S. life expectancy dropped by 1.5 years in 2020, the biggest decline in generations, as Covid-19, drug overdoses and homicides took more American lives
in the nation’s public health. It was the largest single-year decline recorded since 1943. It isn’t entirely clear what caused the drop that year, when the U.S. was fighting World War II.
“I myself had never seen a change this big except in the history books,” said Elizabeth Arias, a demographer at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics and lead author of the report. Life expectancy won’t recover to pre-pandemic levels in 2021, Dr. Arias and other population-health experts said,
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