The United States was one of only five countries, along with Somalia, Afghanistan, Georgia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, where healthy life expectancy a

The United States was one of only five countries, along with Somalia, Afghanistan, Georgia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, where healthy life expectancy at birth fell in 2016... Meanwhile U.S. life expectancy is falling, having peaked at 79 years in 2014, the first such reversal for many years... This is also inequality and poverty taking their toll. May it be sign? In 1976, Emmanuel Todd announced the coming fall of USSR from its dropping life expectancy and other poor demographic results.