Overall life expectancy in the United States fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II, health officials have said – but the decrease for Black Americans and Hispanic Americans was even worse, at three years.Life expectancy is an estimate of the average number of years a baby born in a given year might expect to live. For decades, US life expectancy was on the upswing. But that trend stalled in 2015, for several years, before hitting 78 years, 10 months in 2019.Last year, life expectancy dropped to about 77 years and four months, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday.
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