Death rates and life expectancy

Women have had historically lower death rates and higher life expectancies! Check out the graphs above showing the progression from 1900-2018

What do you think?

This graph represents women of all races in the U.S.

This graph represents 2020-2021 life expectancies

This graph represents men of all races in the U.S.

In the early 1900's, according to the CDC the life expectancy across all races and sexes was 47.3 in the U.S.

Although there were some peaks and valleys, the general trend of life span in the U.S. has been positive, and the trend of death rate has been negative (or lowering)

How Often do we die?

Over time, how we die at each age has vastly changed thanks to the developments of modern medicine and technology. Death rates though, have varied. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data-visualization/mortality-trends/index.htm