US Life Expectancy Declines In Trend Not Seen Since A Century Ago

“The indicators already show that we’re falling apart. America’s life expectancy has declined for the last three years in a row, the first time in a hundred years.”

The U.S. is undergoing its longest sustained decline in life expectancy since World War I and the flu pandemic of 1918 which infected about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population at the time.

The U.S. is an outlier in the statistic. In most developed countries, life expectancy has steadily improved. World War I and the devastating global flu pandemic were behind the last decline from 1915-1918, but the period […]

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