A new interactive tool of the Daily Mail shows how long you can expect to live based on your age in the US and the UK.
You can see what your chances are to die for your next birthday, based on the latest official life expectation data in both America and in Great Britain.
For the first time in modern history in the US, people born today younger than their parents are dying, mainly because of the Fallout of the COVID-19 Pandemie.
The trend was also seen in the UK, although it has been worse in the US, where the Fentanyl epidemic and rising arms have sent the life expectancy back for two years.
For example, a white American boy born today can expect that it will live on average up to 76 years, while a girl will live for 80 years.
Their 30-year-old white father will live up to 77, while their mother of the same age will live up to 81. For ethnic minorities it is even more gloomy.
In the UK, a baby boy of every ethnicity born today would live in 87, compared to 85 for his 30-year-old father. However, a 75-year-old is expected to live up to 87.
Dr. Mia Kazanjian, a radiologist and director of the imaging of women at Norwalk Radiology Consultants in Connecticut, said The Daily Mail: “We should live longer given all the new drug developments and technological progress.”
Increases in chronic health problems such as heart disease and cancer due to lifestyle factors such as diet and a lack of exercise can be fault.
Dr. Kazanjian also notes that COVID-19 has considerably reset the US.
“We don’t see the benefits of the progress we have because of the paralyzing effects of these factors,” she said.
With rare exceptions, life expectancy in history and the UK in history had risen.
In the US it was 47 years old in 1900, 68 years in 1950 and in 2019 it had risen to almost 79 years.
But it fell to 77 in 2020 and fell further, to just over 76, in 2021. That is the biggest decrease over a period of two years since the 1920s.
The last CDC National Vital Statistics ReportPublished last month, discovered that in 2022 the average life expectancy in the US was 77.5 years.
Although that was an increase of 1.1 years compared to 2021 – then up to 26,000 people die from Covid -19 every week – it still fell from 79 in 2019 and the lowest since the end of the 1990s.
For the first time in decades, young Americans do not live as long as their parents, shocking data (stock image)
In the UK, the average life expectancy from 2021 to 2023 was 80.8, including 78.8 years for men and 82.8 years for women.
This was in line with the estimate from 2020 to 2022. But in 2014 the average Brit lived a year longer.
British still live about two and a half years longer than Americans, which can be due to social issues such as overdoses drugs and gun violence.
The use of illegal fentanyl, for example, rose in the US from the beginning of the years 2010. At the start of the decade, 2,666 Americans died of an overdose of fentanyl. This figure shot up to 72,484 in 2021.
Dr. Austin Shuxiao, an internal doctor Peach IVRemains optimistic.
“The increased consciousness in Fentanyl, especially as a contamination in other medicines, is likely to lead to a decrease in total mortality by overdose of Fentanyl in the future,” he said the Daily Mail.
Younger Americans have also become used to rifles and massive shootings, which were rare in the youth of their parents.
In its last data, the CDC estimated that 46,728 Americans died of arms -related injuries in 2023 – 20 percent more than in 2000.
About 325,000 deaths in the US can be bound by obesity, compared to 30,000 in the UK.
The graph above shows the average American life expectancy for men and women from 1900 to 2022, the latest data available
The graph above shows life expectancy in the US per race from 2019 to 2022. Asian Americans have consistently lived the longest, while American Indians and Alaska residents have the shortest lifespan
In the US, this so -called ‘epidemic of chronic diseases’ became a focus during the presidential elections of 2024.
Robert F. Kennedy JR warned during his presidential run for rising percentages of obesity, cancer and diabetes, among other things, threatening to lower life expectancy.
However, experts believe that another factor is the fault. Dr. Kazanjian said: “[The biggest factor] Would be Covid-19. ‘
Since 2020, more than 1.2 million Americans and more than 200,000 British have died of Covid.
At the height of the Pandemie in January 2021, nearly 26,000 people in the US died in one week in one week.
This was more than 50 percent more weekly deaths than that caused by cancer and heart disease, the two most important causes of death in the US.
It was also six times more than the number of Americans who died of accidental injuries per year, the third leading cause of death.
This wave brought the total number of deaths to 3.3 million in 2020, an increase of 16 percent compared to the 2.8 million in 2019.
Last year there were generally just over 3 million American deaths, which suggests that the country still catches up from Covid.
But it is not only the virus itself that implements life expectancy. Unknown surplus deaths, or deaths that took place as a result of COVID-related disruptions, have also been high since the start of the pandemic.
The above graph shows the leading contributors to the life expectancy for Spanish and Asian Americans
The above graph shows the leading contributors to the life expectancy for white and black Americans
“The pandemic caused other electric effects that deteriorated life expectancy,” Dr. Kazanjian.
‘For example, many people did not go to the doctor for fear of getting the virus, and they were quarantine and therefore sitting, which increased the risk of heart conditions.
“Studies have shown that people have missed important screening such as mammograms and colonoscopies, which led to delayed diagnoses of cancer and potential aggravated mortality.”
Mental health also plummeted. In 2021, suicides in the US increased 4 percent compared to the year before, despite the rates that fell earlier during the two decades.
“Social isolation and stress of losing lovers during the pandemia took a huge toll about mental health in the general population, which eventually changed to mortality,” said Dr. Shuxiao.
Jonathan Alpert, a psychotherapist in New York City, said Daily Mail that those mental health effects are still common.
‘The stressors that exploded during the pandemic – social isolation, employment, fear – did not fade alone. They have lingered and evolved, which contributes to a national basic line of chronic stress, fear and despair, “he said.
Similarly, Dr. Ashwini Nadkarni, university professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, on the Daily Mail that the pandemic loneliness worsened.
‘Lack of social connection can pose a considerable risk for a long service life, which increases the risk of premature death. It is said that loneliness is the same health risks as smoking a maximum of 15 cigarettes a day, “she said.
Alpert believes that the worsening mental health of America can also help explain other issues that have reduced life expectancy, such as overdoses fentanyl and deteriorating percentages of chronic diseases.
“Rising percentages of obesity, heart disease and even some cancers in younger people are often bound by stress -related behavior: poor diet, sitting lifestyle, alcohol consumption, disturbed sleep and avoidance of medical care,” he said.
“Covid was the spark, but it exposed deeper, long -term issues to how we deal with stress and adversity.”
The data from the CDC also show certain groups in the US that live longer than others. While Asian-Americans lived to 84 in 2022, the inhabitants of the Indian and Alaska only lived up to 68.
And while white Americans had a life expectancy of 77.5, black people lived up to 72.8 and Spanish Americans lived up to 80.
However, all groups saw falls compared to 2019.
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