U.S. life expectancy dropped nearly two years--state by state maps

These 8 states saw the sharpest declines in life expectancy in 2020 New York saw the biggest drop in life expectancy from 2019 to 2020: 3 years. Hawaii had the smallest change. NBC News

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Deaths in the U.S. rose 19% from 2019 to 2020 — the largest jump in a century. Life expectancy was lowest in Southern states in 2020, including Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and West Virginia. That was most likely due to Covid deaths, according to Dr. Robert Anderson, chief of mortality statistics at NCHS, who reviewed the report.

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