FILE - Funeral home workers load the casket of a person who died after contracting COVID-19 into a hearse on Jan. 15, 2021 in El Cajon, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) AdvertisementThis is the first time the CDC has reported on life expectancy from early, partial records; more death certificates from that period may yet come in.
It’s already known that 2020 was the deadliest year in U.S. history, with deaths topping 3 million for the first time.Life expectancy is how long a baby born today can expect to live, on average.
In the first half of last year, that was 77.8 years for Americans overall, down one year from 78.8 in 2019. For males it was 75.1 years and for females, 80.5 years.As a group, Hispanics in the U.S.