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franceinfo, published on Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 9:25 am
Particularly disturbing figures. Life expectancy continues to decline in the United States, a historical deterioration mainly related to the drug overdose crisis, according to data from the US National Center for Health Statistics, revealed Thursday, November 29.
At birth, life expectancy was 76.1 years for men in 2017 and 81.1 years for women. The average for the entire population was 78.6 years, compared to 78.9 in 2014. This is 3.5 years less than in Canada, also affected by overdoses. Of the 35 OECD countries, only Iceland has recently seen life expectancy decline over three years. Elsewhere, it has increased or stagnated.
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