COVID-19 Slashes U.S. Life Expectancy at Age 65

July 27, 2021 by Allison Bell

The COVID-19 pandemic may have shortened older Americans’ lives enough in 2020 to throw off life insurance, annuity and pension mortality forecasts.

An arm of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting, based on early data, that overall life expectancy at birth dropped by 1.5 years between 2019 and 2020, to 77.3 years.

Life expectancy for 65-year-old U.S. residents fell by 0.8 years, to 18.8 years.

The drop at age 65 was about the same for both men and for women.

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Originally Posted at ThinkAdvisor on July 21, 2021 by Allison Bell.