See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The U.S. death rate fell in 2025 to the lowest level ever recorded, ...

Tens of thousands of Americans dodged death last year, new data shows. The US death rate has fallen to the lowest point on record ahead of America 250, as fatal overdoses and COVID fatalities ...

The U.S. death rate fell to a record low in 2025, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released Thursday. According to the Vital Statistics Rapid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — The U.S. death rate dipped to its lowest point ever recorded, thanks to a steady decline in drug overdoses, ...

There were about 689 deaths for every 100,000 people in the United States in 2025, 4.6% lower than the year before. The main driver of that record low was a continued drop in drug overdose deaths, ...

The nation’s age-adjusted death rate fell 4.6% in 2025 to 689.2 deaths per 100,000 people — the lowest rate ever recorded in the U.S. — according to provisional CDC data published July 2. An estimated ...

The U.S. death rate has dropped to its lowest level since the federal government began tracking it more than 100 years ago. The decline is driven partly by a decrease in deaths related to COVID-19 and ...

New mortality data from the federal government suggests that life expectancy probably hit another record high in 2025, as death rates have continued to fall since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.