The average life expectancy for an American born in 2021 was just shy of 76 years and 5 months, according to a new government report, marking a second consecutive year of decline — a streak that hasn’t happened in more than a century.
Family and friends of people who died after taking pills with fentanyl, hold signs as they protest against illicit drug availability to children on the app Snapchat near the Snap, Inc. headquarters, in Santa Monica, Californiaon Jan. 21, 2022.
The numbers, released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, mark the second consecutive year of decline in average life expectancy, a streak that hasn’t happened in more than a century. The year 2021 saw 106,699 drug overdose deaths in the United States, the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics said in a separate report released Thursday. That’s a dramatic spike from 2020, a year in which fatal overdoses had already reached a historic peak of 91,799.
For every age group, death rates continued to be highest among Black and Latino men, and among men and women who identify as American Indian/Alaska Native. However, 2021 saw a notable improvement in the health of Black and Latino populations relative to white Americans. As waves of illness swept across the country, the result of a vaccination rate disparity would be that white Americans would begin to experience higher COVID-19 death tolls, which would translate into a lower life expectancy.
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