Americans have come last in an analysis of the life expectancy of people living in English-speaking countries. Citizens of Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand have all ...

A new study has found that Americans have the lowest life expectancy of similar English-speaking countries.. The researchers from Penn State University who conducted the study compared mortality ...

Americans had the shortest life expectancy at birth, with men living to an average age of 76.5 years in 2019 and women living an average of nearly 81.5 years. ADVERTISEMENT.

A variety of factors, such as low COVID-19 vaccination rates and Americans' general poor health, ... Nearly 107,000 drug overdoses, COVID deaths, push US life expectancy to lowest in 25 years.

The state’s life expectancy was lower in 2024 than in 2019, according to an analysis, but primarily as a result of causes of ...

Best and worst states for life expectancy. For women, the study found that life expectancy changed very little for those born in 1900 and those born in 2000 in five states: West Virginia, up from ...

Women in the U.S. can expect to live shorter lives than women in similarly wealthy nations, according to a brief from the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit research group focused on health care. In ...

I n August 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that over the last two years, Black Americans’ life expectancy declined to about 71 years old, six years lower than their ...

Those living in poor, rural counties in the South or in highly segregated cities had the lowest life expectancy in 2000 -- about 70.5 years -- while Asian Americans had the highest, 83.1 years.

The life expectancy among Native Americans in the western United States has dropped below 64 years, close to life expectancies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Haiti.