Why is life expectancy falling in the USA?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
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The Decline of Life Expectancy in America
John Byrne Murdock is Chief Data Reporter at the Financial Times in London. The single biggest reason seems to be these deaths from external causes, he says. These type of deaths occur most commonly across America's poorest states and zip codes. Your chances of being killed by a car or van or lorry in the US are six times higher than in the UK.
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