Editing Life expectancy (section)

==== United States ====
[[File:Life expectancy post-COVID.png|thumb|Life expectancy from 1990 to 2021 in the US, UK, Netherlands, and Austria]]In 2022, the life expectancy was 77.5 in the United States, a decline from 2014, but an increase from 2021. In what has been described as a "life expectancy crisis", there were a total of 13 million "missing Americans" from 1980 to 2021, deaths that would have been averted if it had the standard mortality rate of "[[Developed country|wealthy nations]]".{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

The annual number of "missing Americans" has been increasing, with 622,534 in 2019 alone.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Missing Americans: Unprecedented US Mortality Far Exceeds Other Wealthy Nations|url=https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2023/the-missing-americans-unprecedented-us-mortality-far-exceeds-other-wealthy-nations/|access-date=2024-06-03|publisher=Boston University|department=School of Public Health|language=en|date=14 July 2023|first1=Jillian|last1=McKoy}}</ref> Most excess deaths in the United States can largely be attributed to increasing [[obesity]], [[alcoholism]], [[drug overdose]]s, [[car accidents]], [[suicide]]s, and [[murder]]s, with [[Insomnia|poor sleep]], [[unhealthy diet]]s, and [[loneliness]] being linked to most of them.<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Berg S|date=2023-03-10|title=What doctors wish patients knew about falling U.S. life expectancy|url=https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/what-doctors-wish-patients-knew-about-falling-us-life-expectancy|access-date=2024-06-03|publisher=American Medical Association|language=en}}</ref>

[[Black Americans]] have generally shorter life expectancies than their [[White American]] counterparts. For example, white Americans in 2010 are expected to live until age 78.9, but black Americans only until age 75.1. This 3.8-year gap, however, is the lowest it has been since 1975 at the latest, the greatest difference being 7.1 years in 1993.<ref name="Final 2010 data">{{cite journal|vauthors=Murphy SL, Xu JQ, Kochanek KD, Curtin SC, Arias E|title=Deaths: Final Data for 2010|journal=National Vital Statistics Reports|volume=61|issue=4|location=Hyattsville, MD|publisher=National Center for Health Statistics=|date=2013|pages=1–117|pmid=24979972|url=https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_04.pdf}}</ref> In contrast, [[Asian American]] women live the longest of all ethnic and gender groups in the United States, with a life expectancy of 85.8 years.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health|url=http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=2&lvlID=53|title=Asian American/Pacific Islander Profile|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204024943/http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=2&lvlid=53|archive-date=4 February 2012}}</ref> The life expectancy of [[Hispanic Americans]] is 81.2 years.<ref name="Final 2010 data" />