Florida’s life expectancy has reached a new high – South Florida Leads the Way
Bottom Line: We’ll take good news where we can get it, and over the past week we received a double dose of good news based on data from the CDC. U.S. life expectancy bounced back to 79 years most recently – that’s up just over seven months from the prior year. And in Florida, the news was even better with life expectancy checking in at about 80.
The age-adjusted death rate dropped 3.8% and in terms of impact…total deaths fell by about 18,000 people last year. In other words, there are about 18,000 people still alive today who previously would have been last summer. Predictably heart disease and cancer remain the two top killers, however progress was made across all top ten causes of death over the past year. The progress held true demographically too…