{"id":800178,"date":"2022-09-15T20:54:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T20:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=133397"},"modified":"2022-09-15T20:54:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T20:54:45","slug":"life-expectancy-the-us-and-cuba-in-the-time-of-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/15\/life-expectancy-the-us-and-cuba-in-the-time-of-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Expectancy: The US and Cuba in the Time of Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"
Recent data shows that between 2019 and 2021, life expectancy (LE) in the US plunged almost three years while for Cuba<\/a> it edged up 0.2 years.\u00a0 Yet, in 1960, the year after its revolution, Cuba had a LE of \u00a064.2 years, lower by 5.6 years than that in the US (69.8 years).\u00a0 As I document in Cuban Health Care<\/em><\/a>, the island quickly caught up to the US and, from 1970 through 2016, the two countries were nip and tuck, with some years Cuba and other years the US, having a longer LE. But neither country was ever as much as one year of LE ahead of the other.<\/p>\n Life Expectancy (LE) in US and Cuba, 2017-2021<\/strong><\/p>\n