Life expectancy in the U.S. was 36.5 days shorter in 2015 than in 2014

Thursday, December 8, 2016 - 03:31 in Health & Medicine

The final numbers for 2015 are in and it’s now official: Life expectancy for Americans was shorter last year than it was the year before. A person born in the U.S. in 2015 could expect to live 78.8 years, on average. That’s 0.1 years — or 36.5 days — less than in 2014. The main reason for this...

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