These are the first appreciable downturns since World War II. It fell almost a full two years in both California and the nation as a whole in 2020, and provisional estimates suggest a further half year drop in California and a full year drop nationwide in 2021 (the latest year for which it’s possible to estimate). Since then, life expectancy has declined dramatically. In 2019 the state was tied with Hawaii for the longest life expectancy at 80.9 years, notably higher than the national average of 78.8 years and far higher than the lowest state, Mississippi (74.4 years). But an increase in deaths at older ages-even among seniors-can also have big effects if the surge is large enough.īefore the pandemic, Californians lived longer than residents of most other states. Spikes in death rates among the young have outsize effects on this calculation because a young person’s death means more years of lost life. The demographic concept of life expectancy measures how long the average person would live if current death rates by age applied throughout their lifespan. Yet as the virus has gradually receded, improvements now lie on the horizon. In California and the nation it has left a profound imprint in the age distribution and on overall life expectancy. The pandemic has also been the largest demographic catastrophe since World War II. Over one million Americans have died, and many more have lost loved ones, suffered through debilitating illness, or struggled with loneliness and isolation. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a tragedy.
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