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Life expectancy in the United States has further declined, as the number of drug overdose deaths continues to rise – killing more than 70,000 in 2017 – and as suicides increase, announced today. a report from the US government.
The drug overdose rate has increased 9.6% over 2016, while suicides have risen 3.7%, said the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the United States.
As a result, the average lifespan in America has dropped to "78.6 years, a decrease of 0.1 years from 2016," says the report, which contains the first public release of the final mortality data for 2017.
Overall, statistics show a "downward trend in life expectancy since 2014", a period in which Americans lost 0.3 years of life, said Robert Anderson, responsible for the mortality statistics branch at NCHS.
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