US life expectancy drops, but other countries see a rebound
For decades, life expectancy at birth has been generally on the rise in many developed countries, including the U.S. In 2020 – the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic – those countries and the U.S. saw their life expectancy at birth drop. But from 2020 to 2021, life expectancy in the U.S. continued to decline while it rebounded in most comparable countries.
Line chart showing life expectancy trends in the U.S. compared with other comparable countries.
