Life expectancy in the USA varies by more than 20 years depending on an individual's race and ethnicity and where they live.
The LancetNov 22 2024 Life expectancy in the USA varies by more than 20 years depending on an individual's race and ethnicity and where they live. These widespread and persistent life expectancy disparities have divided the country into "ten Americas," according to new research examining inequities in US life expectancy between 2000 and 2021, published in The Lancet.
In this new study, researchers update and expand the original Eight Americas study, dividing the US population into ten mutually exclusive populations, or 'Americas', based on race and ethnicity and other variables such as geographic location, metropolitan status, income, and residential segregation .
Between 2000 and 2010, life expectancy increased for every America except for American Indian and Alaska Native people living in the West , who had the shortest lifespan in 2010 after a one-year drop in life expectancy from 72.3 years in 2000 to 71.2 years in 2010. Widening racial life expectancy gap during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated a staggering drop in life expectancy for all the Americas and substantially widened racial disparities in lifespan. For example, while Black Americans living in highly segregated cities and Black Americans living in rural, low-income counties in the South were expected to live an average 74.9 years and 72.5 years, respectively, in 2019, this fell by approximately 4.
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