Charted: US life expectancy up, but still below pre-pandemic lev

Report details and key findings

For the report, researchers from CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics analyzed provisional death records from 2022, which include 99% of deaths that occurred that year, to estimate Americans’ life expectancy at birth.

Overall, the researchers found that U.S. life expectancy was 77.5 years in 2022 — an increase from 76.4 years in 2021 and 77 years in 2020. However, this life expectancy is still below pre-pandemic levels. In 2019,...