 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Death rate down — life expectancy at high
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The U.S. death rate for 2004 fell to the lowest level ever
recorded, and life expectancy at birth rose to a new high, federal
officials said.
The death rate, adjusted to take into account the changing age
distribution of the population, fell to 801 per 100,000 in 2004, 3.8
percent lower than the 2003 rate of 832.7, the National Center for
Health Statistics, based in Hyattsville, Md., said today in a
preliminary report.
Utah's death rate is lower still, with 537 deaths per 100,000...
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Study shows decline in life expectancy for many American women.(Front)
The Virginian Pilot
; Byline: DAVID BROWN By David Brown The Washington Post For the first time since the Spanish influenza of 1918, life expectancy is falling for a significant number of American women. In nearly 1,000 counties that together are home to about 12 percent of the nation's women, life expectancy is shorter
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Life Expectancy Drops for Some U.S. Women; Historic Reversal, Found in 1,000 Counties, May Be Result of Smoking and Obesity
The Washington Post
; For the first time since the Spanish influenza of 1918, life expectancy is falling for a significant number of American women. In nearly 1,000 counties that together are home to about 12 percent of the nation's women, life expectancy is now shorter than it was in the early 1980s, according to a
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 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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Life expectancy hits record high for Americans; Men narrowing gap with women
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; ... 2003, a change the agency said was not statistically significant. While the overall life expectancy increase to 77.6 was good news, Americans still trail many other countries, according to statistics from the World Health Organization. In 2002 figures, Japan ...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Free at last, to die: Russia. (upsurge in the death rate)
The Economist (US)
; DEMOCRACY and the free market have not brought long life to Russians. Between 1989 and 1994, Russia's crude death rate rose by 45% and life expectancy, for men at least, dropped to Kenyan levels: from 65 years to 58 (74 to 71 for women), against a current span of 74 for men and 80 for women in the
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For whom the bell tolls.(death rate for 1995)
American Demographics
; In 1995, 2.3 million people died in the U.S., the greatest one-year total ever recorded. Yet the likelihood of dying actually declined from the previous year. This counterintuitive relationship between rising numbers of deaths and falling death rates is due to the growing proportion of Americans
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 "AAP General News (Australia)")
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Fed: Lowest death rate in Australia's reach: Experts
AAP General News (Australia)
; AAP General News (Australia) 10-14-2007 Fed: Lowest death rate in Australia's reach: Experts By Tamara McLean, Medical Writer SYDNEY, Oct 14 AAP ...
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LIFE EXPECTANCY 75 YEARS IN US
The Boston Globe
; ATLANTA - The nation's death rate has dipped to an all-time low, and life expectancy has reached a record 75 years, federal health researchers reported yesterday. According to 1987 mortality data, overall life expectancy was up by 0.2 year -- about 73 days -- from the record set in 1986, said Ken
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Flu blamed for dip in life expectancy figure
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; U.S. life expectancy fell slightly in 1993, the first dip in 13 years, but that doesn't mean shorter life spans, just that the projections were skewed by a large number of flu deaths. Life expectancy for people born in 1993 was pegged at 75.5 years, down from the 75.8 years for a person born in
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Death Rate Gap Widens; Black-White Mortality Trend Continuing
The Washington Post
; The difference in life expectancy between black and white Americans widened in 1989, continuing a trend that has been evident for half a decade, the government reported yesterday. The rising death rate of young black men - primarily because of homicide and AIDS - is probably the reason blacks have
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Life expectancy rises to 76, government says
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Murders and suicides fell last year among the nation's youth, boosting the average life expectancy of Americans to a new high of 76, the government said Thursday. Homicide caused 8.4 deaths per 100,000 people in 1996, down 10.6% from a rate of 9.4 deaths the year before, the CDC said. Among 5- to
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