Overall, life expectancy fell from almost 79 years in 2019 to 77 years in 2020 to 76.1 years in 2021. Among Native Americans and Native Americans, it fell to an age of 65 in 2021, which was the average for all Americans in 1944 corresponds.
The decline during the Covid pandemic was the largest in nearly 100 years, reports The New York Times, and hit Native American communities the hardest.
Steven Woolf
, director emeritus of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University, called the decline in life expectancy in the United States “historic”. Though other high-income countries were also hit hard in 2020, the first year of the pandemic, most have recovered over the past year, he said. “None of them have seen a continuous decline like in the US, and a good number have seen normalization in life expectancy,” he concluded.