According to Fox News reported on the 224th, The latest data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday showed that among states in the United States, New York State had the largest decrease in average life expectancy in 2020.
Data from the U.S. CDC show that the average life expectancy of New York State residents decreased from 80.7 years in 2019 to 77.7 years in 2020, a decrease of 3%. This is the largest decrease among the 50 states and the District of Columbia in the United States. Residents of Hawaii experienced the smallest decrease in life expectancy in 2020, only 0.2%, from 80.9 years to 80.7 years.
Picture source of New York streets during the epidemic: People's Vision
In addition, the average life expectancy of New York State residents ranks 15th in the United States, while Hawaii has the longest average life expectancy, about 80.7 years, Mississippi ranks At the end, it was 71.9 years old.
A report from the US CDC shows that in 2020, the average life expectancy in every US state and Washington, DC has declined, mainly due to the sudden spread of the new coronavirus and "unintentional injuries" such as drug overdose. But according to Fox Channel 5, experts had expected that the average life expectancy of New York state residents would only decrease by one year. They called the three-year decrease in life expectancy a "significant change."
reported that Patrick Kachur, a professor at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, said: "New York was hit by the pandemic very early, and it was hit very hard." The
report shows that in 2020 The average life expectancy gap between men and women in the United States is 5.7 years, with Washington having the highest life expectancy of 7.0 years and Utah having the lowest life expectancy of 3.9 years. Furthermore, the states with the lowest average life expectancy at birth are mostly from the southern U.S. states, while the states with the longest life expectancy at birth are mostly in the West or Northeast.
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