U.S. Life Expectancy Hits Record High
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Life expectancy hits all-time high at 79 years in 2024 as U.S. drug overdose deaths decline by 26.2%, reports CDC data.
A recent research letter published July 9 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), titled “The Failure of Life Expectancy to Fully Rebound to Prepandemic Levels,” paints a damning picture of the public health crisis in California, the ...
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US life expectancy climbed to 79 as overdoses eased, but gaps stayed wide
It’s pretty much good news all the way around,” as final federal statistics indicated that Americans could expect to live longer than ever, on average, National Center for Health Statistics researcher Robert Anderson said.