Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
by grecy on Sunday July 21, 2024 @09:41PM
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> And life expectancy is trending upwards and has for a long time as we eliminate more early mortalities.
Sadly, that is not true in the US.
It's the only developed country where life expectancy is going down quite a lot.
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-lif...
Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
by dahart on Sunday July 21, 2024 @10:04PM
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You’ve missed the breaking news that it went up again.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/21/cdc-us-life-expecta...
And possibly that the negative growth looks to have been a relatively short outlier.
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/uni....
The SSA, CBO, and the Census Bureau all predict life expectancy to rise over the next 30 years.
Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
by erichocean on Sunday July 21, 2024 @10:28PM
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No, it's still below 2019 levels, it's just up since Covid.
Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
by dahart on Sunday July 21, 2024 @10:35PM
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No what? What part of the data I posted are you contradicting? Parent and I were talking growth rates, not absolute numbers. Sure, after a few years of slightly negative growth, the absolute numbers might be lower than at the very end of the negative growth. But the growth rate is now positive (for several years in a row) and expected to climb higher over the next few decades. If you think you’ve got something the CBO, SSA, CDC, and Census Bureau don’t, please share it.
Small but important note, you picked life expectancy for males, not all individuals. For females the life expectancy at birth is over 79 years. The average life expectancy for someone in the US without specifying their sex at birth is north of 76 years. And life expectancy is trending upwards and has for a long time as we eliminate more early mortalities.