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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, life expectancy in the United States will fall for the second year in a row in 2021, with about half of the 2021 decline attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the first two years of the pandemic, estimated life expectancy in the United States was reduced by nearly three years.
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Life expectancy had increased for decades, but that progress stalled before the pandemic.
In 2019, it was 78 years and 10 months, but last year it dropped to about 76 years and 1 month.
It decreased by about 10 months for women and a year for men.
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Life expectancy is the approximate number of years a baby born in a particular year is expected to live given current mortality rates.
New reports are based on preliminary data.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.