US Life Expectancy Improved in 2022, Rebounding from Covid Lows
- Americans born last year can expect to live 77.5 years
- Increase was largely due to fewer people dying from Covid
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Girls and boys born in the US last year both saw their life expectancy improve, the first increases since the pandemic.
That’s according to 2022 provisional estimates from the US Department of Health and Human Services. Life expectancy at birth was 77.5 years — an increase of 1.1 years from 2021 — as fewer people died from Covid-19.