From 2019 to 2020, life expectancy in NYC fell to 78 years — a 4.6 year drop.
Donate NowThe COVID-19 pandemic shortened average life expectancy for New Yorkers by more than four years, hitting the city’s minority populations hardest, according to a report released on Friday.by the city’s health department looked at trends in births and deaths in New York City during 2020, the year when COVID-19 arrived.
The mortality rate in 2020 was 241.3 deaths per 100,000 New Yorkers, according to the health department. A rise in unintentional drug overdoses also played a role in the 42.2% increase in deaths in 2020 over the year before. The study highlighted how the pandemic exacerbated health inequities in the city. Black New Yorkers saw an ever bigger drop in life expectancy – down 5.5 years from 2019 and falling to 73 years. For Latinos, life expectancy dropped by six years, down to 77.3. For white people, the drop in life expectancy was three years.
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