White women are dying at a slightly younger age than in the past. That’s according to a report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.
The life expectancy for non-Hispanic white women in the United States declined by one month–from 81.2 years to 81.1 years–from 2013 to 2014. Though one month may not seem like much, demographers worry–it’s the first time since the government began keeping records that white women’s life expectancy has declined, according to the report.
The numbers don’t include cause of death, but demographer Elizabeth Arias, who wrote the analysis, decided to dig deeper.
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“For the age group 25 to 54, suicide went up,” she says. ” ‘Unintentional poisonings,’ which is mainly alcohol and drug poisoning, and chronic liver disease–those went up by quite a bit.”
Those underlying factors affected men and women, Arias says, but affected women more. ...
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