US Life Expectancy Falls Again in ‘Historic’ Decline

The largest decline has been among these two highly jabbed groups, dropping from 71.8 years in 2019 to 65.2 years in 2021.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• According to the latest statistics, life expectancy in the United States dropped precipitously in 2020 and 2021. In 2019, the average life span of Americans of all ethnicities was nearly 79 years. By the end of 2021, life expectancy had dropped to 76 — a loss of nearly three years

• Even small declines in life expectancy of a tenth or two-…