This life expectancy gap nearly doubled during the study period, increasing from 4.1 years between 2008–2010 to 8 years between 2017–2019.

American life expectancy in 1960 was almost ten years shorter than it is today. And the leading causes of death were chronic diseases. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. frequently tells a different story.

From 2008 to 2010, the gap was 4.1 years, whereas between 2017 and 2019, the life expectancy gap grew to eight years.

Life expectancy in the U.S. is at its lowest point in nearly two decades, and the projected life spans of Black and Native Americans are shorter than white Americans.

Among older adults, non-Hispanic white Americans have overtaken Asians Americans as the healthiest U.S.-born population with the lowest rates of disability.

Women tend to have longer life expectancy than men, with women living 81.1 years while men live 75.8 years, according to 2023 data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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