US lifeexpectancy disadvantage is worse than previously believed, according to new study
Life expectancy in the United States is lower than in the rest of the industrialized world, and a new study shows that the nation began falling behind as long ago as the 1950s, decades earlier than previously believed. The findings, published Thursday in the, also show that dozens of countries across six continents have outranked the United States in"The new study challenges two assumptions that have influenced previous research on the U.S.
The study found that increases in U.S. life expectancy began to slow from 1950 to 1954 and slowed even further from 1955 to 1973 . By 1968, the U.S. rank had fallen to 29th. After rebounding temporarily from 1974 to 1982 , U.S. life expectancy slowed again from 1983 to 2009 , essentially"flatlined" from 2010 to 2019 and plummeted in 2020 to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Before 1950, most countries that outperformed the United States were concentrated in Northern and Western Europe. However, in the 1950s and 1960s, several Southern and Eastern European countries also surpassed the United States. A number of Asian countries also began outpacing the United States as early as the 1960s, as well as several Middle Eastern countries beginning in the 1990s and continuing into the 2010s.
"State governments play a large role in promoting the health and well-being of their constituents, and over time we've seen widening disparities in health trends at the state level," Woolf said."This is encouraging, as it shows that states are capable of adopting policies that improve health, but it is also discouraging, because many other states that fared poorly in this study are now actively weakening or rolling back such policies.
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