Americans have come last in an analysis of the life expectancy of people living in English-speaking countries. Citizens of Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand have all ...

The life expectancy of Black Americans continue to lag that of white Americans, with disparities seen across states. Experts say structural racism must be addressed to close the gap.

A variety of factors, such as low COVID-19 vaccination rates and Americans' general poor health, ... Nearly 107,000 drug overdoses, COVID deaths, push US life expectancy to lowest in 25 years.

Americans born in 2021 can expect to live for just 76.1 years — the lowest life expectancy has been since 1996, according to a new analysis. It's the biggest two-year decline in almost 100 years.

In 2020, life expectancy at birth declined to 77 years — the lowest national average since 1996. Projections for 2021 showed another drop to 76.1 years, which would be the biggest two-year ...

US life expectancy will sink to 66th in the world by 2050, according to a major study. Americans already die younger than their contemporaries in about 50 other countries.

Best and worst states for life expectancy. For women, the study found that life expectancy changed very little for those born in 1900 and those born in 2000 in five states: West Virginia, up from ...

Japan has the longest life expectancy, at 84.1 years, and they also have the lowest per-capita health care spending (PPP adjusted dollars in 2022) at $5,251. The U.S. has by far the highest per ...

Overall, Native men and boys had the lowest life expectancy at around 68 years, according to the study. That's a decade less than Hispanics, 7.7 years less than whites, and 2.7 years less than Blacks.

The life expectancy among Native Americans in the western United States has dropped below 64 years, close to life expectancies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Haiti.

But while white Americans lost 1.36 years, Black Americans lost 3.25 years and Hispanic Americans lost 3.88 years. Given that life expectancy typically varies only by a month or two from year to ...

The gap in life expectancy between Black and white Americans has narrowed over the past 3 decades from 7 years to 3.6 years, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National ...