A report from the National Center for Health Statistics ranked all 50 states and Washington, D.C., in order of residents’ life expectancies before the pandemic.
Feb. 10, 2022, 7:58 AM UTCThe majority of U.S. states with the lowest life expectancies in 2019 were in the South, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report published Thursday.
While the report did not touch on poverty levels, Mississippi also had the greatest share of people — 19.5 percent — living below the poverty line in 2019,Similarly, other states with low life expectancies had high shares of residents under the poverty line. Louisiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee and South Carolina all had more than 13.5 percent of the population below that line in 2019.
The new report also found that life expectancy was higher for women in all states and Washington, D.C. , from 78.8 years to 77. The average age-adjusted death rate increased by nearly 17 percent between 2019 and 2020."I’m sure it’s going to look really different than what we saw in 2019," Arias said.
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