The U.S. life expectancy at birth for all Americans fell from 78.8 years in 2019 to 77.0 years in 2020, a decline of 1.8 years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Dec. 22 that this is the largest single-year fall in 77 years, more than three-quarters of a century.
The spread of COVID-19 accounted for a large share of the decrease in life expectancy; more broadly, the drop signifies the ongoing physical-economic cultural collapse of the United States.
The previous largest single year fall occurred when life expectancy fell by 2.9 years between 1942 and 1943, when American soldiers were fighting in World War II.
With regard to a breakdown, based on an earlier CDC Vital Statistics Surveillance Report, between 2019 and 2020, life expectancy decreased 3 years for the Hispanic population (from 81.8 to 78.8), and by 2.9 years for the black population (74.7 to 71.8). This is the same magnitude as the 2.9-year decrease in life expectancy by the U.S. population between 1942 and 1943. U.S. black males’ life expectancy fell by 3.3 years. This is reminiscent of the British demographic genocide carried out against the Russian population from 1992-99.
Overall, U.S. deaths surged by 17.7% to 3,358,814 in 2020 (from 2,854,838 in 2019), an increase of 503, 976. COVID-19 caused 352,000 deaths in 2020, from zero the year before, according to Johns Hopkins University. But there were 44,000 suicides and approximately 100,000 drug overdose deaths in 2020 (the latter at least 30,000 higher than the year before).
It is true there was no Covid-19 vaccine in 2020, but China has had only 4,636 COVID deaths by using rigorous public health policy, of the sort that Lyndon LaRouche strongly endorsed going back to his Biological Holocaust task force statements. Moreover, during the last 2.5 years, the U.S. has shuttered about 125 hospitals, and never built the hundreds of new ones that are necessary. The issue is physical-cultural.
The Paul Volcker policy of “controlled disintegration” imposed upon the U.S. population and economy during the Columbus Day weekend of 1979; the 1981 Kemp-Roth “Tax Recovery” Act; the 1985 Gramm-Rudman Budget-Balancing Act; the repeal of the Glass-Steagall law in 1999; the extension of $19 trillion in federal credit lines to save bankrupt banks in 2007-08, have all, in concert, shaped the physical-economic devastation.
The U.S. manufacturing workforce was shrunk from 19.5 million workers in July 1979 to 12.5 million workers today—a 64-percent drop while the total U.S. population increased from 225 million to 329 million, a growth of 46 percent.
The U.S. life expectancy is a true demographic indicator of the actual condition of U.S. potential relative population density. There is no uptick. Without reversal of policy, it will get much worse.
