Life expectancy for Americans increased between 2021 and 2022 following two consecutive years of decline, according to provisional data published on Nov. 28 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The report from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) shows that life expectancy—an estimation of how long a baby born in a particular year might be expected to live—rose in the United States from 76.4 in 2021 to 77.5 in 2022, marking a 1.1-year increase.
