US Life Expectancy Lagging Behind Other Countries: Study

The United States has fallen behind dozens of "globally diverse" countries in life expectancy, according to a new report. The decline began in the 1950s and has worsened over the past four decades. The report found that 56 countries on six continents surpassed U.S. life expectancy from 1933 to 2021. The cause appears to have been factors in the Midwest and South, where growth in life expectancy was the slowest. Overall life expectancy in the U.S. dropped by 1.8 years from 2019 to 2020, according to most recent data.