US Life Expectancy -- Over Age 80 -- A Comparative Study -- A Very Old Study -- July 4, 2023

Locator: 45886COVID.

Link here.

The link is to a very, very old article, from a very, very prestigious journal, The New England Journal of Medicine. I subscribed to it for years. Brings back great memories.

I have no idea whether the data holds up almost 30 years later, but my hunch: it does. 

My hunch: the US also did much, much better through the plague years, 2020 and 2021.

• the vaccines were available in the US much earlier than other countries; and,
• compared to some countries (I'm thinking of Sweden, here) the US was much more proactive.

Life expectancy at birth by birth year, link here:

Life expectancy "now" for those in their 70s: link here:

My wife will outlive me by one year. That's an important data point with regard to investing, insurance, etc.