![]() ![]() It estimates how long a cohort of newborns could expect to live if it experienced the mortality rates of that specific year throughout their entire lifetimes. Life expectancy is not the average life span of individuals in a society but a hypothetical measure based solely on the mortality rates observed in a given year. This study demonstrates that the reduction in life expectancy continued from 2020 into 2021, despite the availability of vaccines for much of 2021. In their analysis of 1.9 million deaths in California between 20, the multi-campus research team calculated that life expectancy for Californians fell from 81.40 years in 2019 to 79.20 years in 2020, and down to 78.37 years in 2021. “Policymakers can use these findings to craft a more equitable response now, and also to inform how we plan for future public health crises.” ![]() “Our findings are another troubling sign of how the pandemic’s impact was not felt evenly across all communities,” said study co-author Till von Wachter, a UCLA professor of economics and director of the California Policy Lab’s UCLA site. The research further shows that life expectancies for Hispanic, Asian and Black Californians decreased more than for white Californians and that the gap in life expectancies between those living in the highest- and lowest-income census tracts increased, from a difference of about 11.5 years before the pandemic to more than 15 years in 2021. The life expectancy of Californians decreased by about three years as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study by UCLA researchers and colleagues published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The difference in life expectancy between those in the state’s highest- and lowest-income areas increased by three-and-a-half years to more than 15 years. For Hispanics, life expectancy declined by nearly six years - the largest drop among all groups and three times as high as whites. Overall l ife expectancy for Californians fell from 81.4 years to 78.4 years between 20. ![]()
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