HealthExec November 29, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic shaved 2.4 years off U.S. life expectancy, and the population has yet to fully recover from the setback, according to new data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.
A report released by the agency this week shows U.S. life expectancy at birth for 2022 was 77.5 years. That’s based on near-final data, and it reflects an increase of only 1.1 years over 2021’s 76.4 years.
Faring the best of all subpopulations in that time window are non-Hispanic people of American Indian and Alaska Native lineage. These groups lost some 6.2 years to the pandemic but sprang back to regain 2.3 years by 2022.
The Hispanic population had the next strongest recovery, reclaiming 2.2 years after...
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