Tag: life expectancy at birth
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that life expectancy at birth increased for the first time in four years. For decades, life expectancy had been on an upswing, rising a few months every year. But from 2014 to 2017, it actually fell, as deaths due to overdoses and suicides…
In 2016, life expectancy at birth for women in the United States was 81.1, five years longer than that for men. Everywhere in the world, without exception, women live longer than men. However, a recent study by Claudia Goldin and Adriana Lleras-Muney points out that women did not always have a survival advantage. In t…
