Meanwhile, U.S. life expectancy also dropped in 2021 to about 76 years, 5 months — a decrease of 0.6 years from 2020, the CDC said.
in the U.S. also declined last year, which the CDC said was primarily due to COVID-19 and unintentional injuries — which include drug overdoses.
Earlier, provisional data suggested more than 107,000 overdose deaths last year. A CDC spokesman said that the numbers may have changed as some additional death records have come in. FILE IMAGE - Purple flags on display in front of Brigham & Women's Hospital, meant to represent the thousands of lives lost to drug overdoses, on Oct. 28, 2021. Meanwhile, life expectancy in the U.S. fell to about 76 years, 5 months in 2021, a decrease of 0.6 years from 2020, the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics said.
The death rate increased by 5.3%, from 835.4 deaths per 100,000 people in 2020 to 879.7 per 100,000 in 2021.Out of the top 10 leading causes of death in 2021, nine causes remained the same as in 2020, the CDC report said.
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