life expectancy

Finally some good news in America on life expectancy, but we’ve got a ways to go

By Funeral Director Daily / December 5, 2023 /

    It was only about two weeks ago that Funeral Director Daily reported the final numbers for life expectancy in the United States using the 2021 final figures.  At that time, as you can see in this article, life expectancy had been lowered for newborns in the United States to 76.1 years.   However,…

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2021 Final Stats: Death rates rise, life-expectancy drops in U.S.

By Funeral Director Daily / December 26, 2022 /

  According to this article from the Los Angeles Times, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) released final death statistics for the calendar year 2021 last week.   It’s interesting to note that the death rate (the percentage of Americans who die in a given year) has risen at the same time that life expectancy…

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American Life Expectancy drops in 2020

By Funeral Director Daily / July 29, 2021 /

It will surprise no one that in the Covid-19 pandemic year of 2020, that life expectancy for Americans dropped by the largest decline since World War II.  This article from the Associated Press also indicates that the life expectancy drop for Black Americans was the largest since the Great Depression and for Hispanics it was…

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