Drug overdoses and suicides fuel drop in U.S. life expectancy

This is one of the great statistical anomalies. Although the USA has a powerful and growing economy, life expectancy is declining.

The USA ranks 31st in the world in this category, or 36th, depending on which calculation you accept.

“Three CDC reports released Thursday paint an increasingly grim picture of mortality in the United States, with life expectancy dropping, overall death rates increasing and mortality from drug addiction and suicide rising fast among young adults. It was the third year in a row that life expectancy had either fallen or stayed flat — the first three-year stretch since the flu pandemic a century ago.”

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