Forbes January 1, 2025
The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on mortality in the United States shows that life expectancy at birth rose from 77.5 in 2022 to 78.4 in 2023. While this signals a continued bounce-back from significant declines in 2020 and 2021, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the figure is still below the 2010 level. And preliminary data suggest that the improvement in life expectancy in 2024 will be much smaller, as the rebound appears to be losing steam.
Over the next 25 years, life expectancy in the U.S. is projected to rise by approximately two years—far less than in other wealthy, industrialized nations, according to a study published in The Lancet and carried out by the Institute for...
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