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> And life expectancy is trending upwards and has for a long time as we eliminate more early mortalities. Sadly, that is not true in the US. It's the only dev

by grecy 2y ago

> And life expectancy is trending upwards and has for a long time as we eliminate more early mortalities. Sadly, that is not true in the US. It's the only developed country where life expectancy is going down quite a lot. https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-life-expectancy-compare-countries/ https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-lif... https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low

dahart 2y ago
You’ve missed the breaking news that it went up again. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/21/cdc-us-life-expectancy-rises-after-two-year-dip-00148193 https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/21/cdc-us-life-expecta... And possibly that the negative growth looks to have been a relatively short outlier. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/united-states/life-expectancy#:~:text=Chart%20and%20table%20of%20U.S.,a%200.08%25%20increase%20from%202022 https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/uni.... The SSA, CBO, and the Census Bureau all predict life expectancy to rise over the next 30 years. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59899#_idTextAnchor013 https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59899#_idTextAnchor013
- erichocean 2y ago
  No, it's still below 2019 levels, it's just up since Covid.
  - dahart 2y ago
    No what? What part of the data I posted are you contradicting? Parent and I were talking growth rates, not absolute numbers. Sure, after a few years of slightly negative growth, the absolute numbers might be lower than at the very end of the negative growth. But the growth rate is now positive (for several years in a row) and expected to climb higher over the next few decades. If you think you’ve got something the CBO, SSA, CDC, and Census Bureau don’t, please share it.

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> And life expectancy is trending upwards and has for a long time as we eliminate more early mortalities. Sadly, that is not true in the US. It's the only dev

by grecy 2y ago

dahart 2y ago
You’ve missed the breaking news that it went up again. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/21/cdc-us-life-expectancy-rises-after-two-year-dip-00148193 https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/21/cdc-us-life-expecta... And possibly that the negative growth looks to have been a relatively short outlier. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/united-states/life-expectancy#:~:text=Chart%20and%20table%20of%20U.S.,a%200.08%25%20increase%20from%202022 https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/uni.... The SSA, CBO, and the Census Bureau all predict life expectancy to rise over the next 30 years. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59899#_idTextAnchor013 https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59899#_idTextAnchor013
- erichocean 2y ago
  No, it's still below 2019 levels, it's just up since Covid.
  - dahart 2y ago
    No what? What part of the data I posted are you contradicting? Parent and I were talking growth rates, not absolute numbers. Sure, after a few years of slightly negative growth, the absolute numbers might be lower than at the very end of the negative growth. But the growth rate is now positive (for several years in a row) and expected to climb higher over the next few decades. If you think you’ve got something the CBO, SSA, CDC, and Census Bureau don’t, please share it.