The American lifespan declined slightly in 2015, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report based primarily on 2015 death certificates:
Life expectancy in the United States has declined for the first time in more than two decades. Data from the National Center for Health Statistics showed a drop for men from 76.5 years in 2014 to 76.3 in 2015, and from 81.3 to 81.2 for women. The preliminary figures show rises in several causes of death, especially heart disease, dementia and accidental infant deaths.
Life expectancy last fell during the peak of the HIV/Aids crisis in 1993. It has improved slightly but steadily in most of the years since World War Two, rising from a little more than 68 years in 1950. It also fell in 1980, after a severe outbreak of flu. Overall life expectancy for men and women is now 78.8 years, a decrease of 0.1 year from 2014.
[...] The death rate for cancer has gone down 1.7%, which is significant as cancer is the second-biggest cause of death, causing almost as many fatalities as heart disease. But it seems that fast-developing research into cancer treatments, as well as campaigns on public education and early detection, are having an impact.
But do they account for the effect of fake deaths?
Mortality in the United States, 2015 (PDF)
An anonymous coward sent in an article from The Atlantic covering the same news.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 10 2016, @11:20AM
Uh, no. See, you're confused. America needs to become less ethical to be great again. Bring back Black slavery, genocide the Indian reservations, abolish Social Security, cancel all Emergency medical care, these are the ways to restore American greatness. Oh, and lynchings. Lots and lots of lynchings.