Sunday, December 22, 2024

U.S. Sees Rise in Life Expectancy

U.S. life expectancy rose last year, hitting its highest level since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 05:34 PM | 10 COMMENTS | permalink

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U.S. Deaths Are Down and Life Expectancy Is Up, but Improvements Are Slowing www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth ...

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-- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) December 19, 2024 at 5:21 PM

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States with the lowest life expectancy from birth were:

Mississippi: 70.9 years
West Virginia: 71 years
Alabama: 72 years
Louisiana: 72.2 years
Kentucky: 72.3 years

The GQP is a death cult.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-12-22 12:51 PM

Meanwhile, IQ levels and mental health life expectancy continues to decline precipitously.

#2 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2024-12-22 01:18 PM

Me, three years ago:

The current drops in life expectancy are due to two historical blips: the opioid crisis, which killed fewer, but they were younger so they might lose decades of their life, and Covid, which killed more, but usually folks either older or infirm, taking maybe two years of life from them on average.

Expect stories about surprising jumps in life expectancy over the next few years.
~2021

#3 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-12-22 01:32 PM

Don't worry. The Musk/Trump Administration will fix that.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-22 01:42 PM

Good.

#5 | Posted by TaoWarrior at 2024-12-22 02:37 PM

@#5

I agree. It is A Good Thing to see the overall life expectancy of the US increase.

The medical profession s moving us in the right direction.

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-22 06:03 PM

@#3

Point taken.

Is the current rise just due to the blips you mention? Or is athe start/continuation of a trend?

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-22 06:06 PM

It's still lower than countries with socialized healthcare

#8 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2024-12-23 12:48 AM

@#8 .... It's still lower than countries with socialized healthcare ...

Well, yeah.

Health care for all seems to win out over healthcare for profit.

Countries With the Longest and Shortest Life Expectancies (December 13, 2024)
www.usnews.com

... In 2022, Europe was home to the highest life expectancy among regions listed in the World Bank data, at 81.7 years among the 20 European Union member states that have adopted the euro as their currency. That compared to 57.6 years in western and central Africa, which had the lowest average life expectancy of any included region.

Most of the countries with the longest life expectancies in 2022 were wealthy nations in Asia and Europe, with Liechtenstein and Japan topping the list at around 84 years.

Countries With the Longest Life Expectancy

Liechtenstein 84.3 years
Japan 84.0 years
Switzerland 83.5 years
Australia 83.2 years
Sweden 83.1 years
Spain 83.1 years
Ireland 83.1 years
Luxembourg 83.0 years
Italy 82.9 years
Singapore 82.9 years
...


Whoa, 80+ years?

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-23 01:06 AM

They generally have lower infant death rates as well.

#10 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2024-12-23 04:22 AM

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