In 2020, we witnessed the steepest plunge in life expectancy since World War II, largely fueled by the coronavirus pandemic. How does where we live affect our opportunity to be healthy?įor the first time in our history, the United States is raising a generation of children who may live sicker and shorter lives than their parents. The data for census tracts, counties, and states are for 2018 national-level life expectancy estimates are drawn from provisional data for 2020.
