The latest provisional CDC figures showed U.S. life expectancy declined for three years in a row, but has it fallen below that of China?
in August and showed a further decline in U.S. life expectancy at birth, which the national public health agency said"represents the average number of years a group of infants would live if they were to experience throughout life the age-specific death rates prevailing during a period"—in this case 2021.
However, the CDC said its data,"based on provisional mortality data for 2021 and final data for 2019 and 2020," remained incomplete. The OECD's latest statistics stop at 2020, although, to be sure, a comparison of the same data points for the two countries would still put Chinese life expectancy higher: 77.1 years in China and 77.0 years in the U.S.
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