U.S. life expectancy saw a significant increase in 2023, reaching its highest point since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
U.S. life expectancy rose last year, hitting its highest level since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, according to a report released Thursday. The report found that life expectancy at birth was 78.4 years in 2023. That's a significant rise — nearly a full year — from the life expectancy of 77.5 years in 2022. The increase we had this year — the 0.
9 year — that's unheard of prior to the pandemic,' said Ken Kochanek, a statistician at the National Center for Health Statistics who co-authored the report. “Life expectancy in the United States never goes up or down any more than one- or two-tenths,” he said. “But then when Covid happened, you had this gigantic drop, and now we have a gigantic drop in Covid. So, you have this gigantic increase in life expectancy.”Covid deaths fell significantly last year: Whereas Covid was the fourth leading cause of death in 2022, it was the 10th in 2023, according to the new report. Last year, Covid was the underlying or contributing cause of more than 76,000 deaths.The new findings are based on an analysis of death certificates from all 50 states and Washington, D.C. The results showed that the overall death rate for the U.S. population decreased by 6%. 'It's not going to disappear completely,' he said, adding that it's not yet known whether deaths will continue to fall before leveling off at a more predictable annual rate. According to the new report, the top five causes of death in the U.S. last year were heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, stroke and chronic lower respiratory diseases. Death rates fell for nine of the top 10 causes in 2023, while the rate of cancer deaths remained fairly unchanged. The injuries category includes drug overdoses, which are the leading cause of injury mortality in the U.S., according to the CDC. A In 2023, the rate of overdose deaths was around 31.3 out of every 100,000 people, compared with 32.6 in 2022. Broken down by age, the largest decrease — more than 10% — was observed among people ages 15 to 24
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