The nation’s death rate may have fallen to a historic low last year as many of the killers of young people such as drug overdoses, gun homicides and traffic accidents continued receding in 2025, ...
THE BREAKDOWN:A new provisional report from the National Center for Health Statistics reveals that the United States hit its lowest recorded age-adjusted death rate in history in 2025. Total deaths ...
Americans born in 2024 can expect to live 79.0 years, the highest figure the federal government has ever recorded, while the ...
New mortality data from the federal government suggests that life expectancy probably hit another record high in 2025, as death rates have continued to fall since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The U.S. saw roughly 3.07 million deaths in 2024, with a notable 3.8% drop in the overall age-adjusted death rate compared to 2023. Mortality fell across most age, sex, and racial/ethnic groups, ...