{"id":4611,"date":"2006-04-23T22:52:55","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T22:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4611"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:01:58","slug":"dramatic_declin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4611","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic decline in U.S. death rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good report &#8211; an actual decline of almost 50,000 in the annual number of people dying. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/entrepreneurs\/feeds\/ap\/2006\/04\/19\/ap2681719.html\">Update 1: U.S. Records Drastic Decline in Death Rate &#8211; Forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some excerpts:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mainarttxt\">The 2 percent decrease, reported by the National Center for Health Statistics, came as a shock to many, because the U.S. is aging, growing in population and getting fatter. In fact, some experts said they suspect the numbers may not hold up when a final report is released later this year&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mainarttxt\">&#8230; The government also said that U.S. life expectancy has inched up again to 77.9 years, a record high but still behind that of about two dozen other countries.<\/span> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; <span class=\"mainarttxt\">Japan, Monaco and San Marino had the highest life expectancy, 82 years, in 2004, according to World Health Organization statistics. Australia, Iceland, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland have a life expectancy of 81. Canada, France, Israel, Norway, Spain and Britain are among the other countries with life expectancies above 78.<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good report &#8211; an actual decline of almost 50,000 in the annual number of people dying. Update 1: U.S. Records Drastic Decline in Death Rate &#8211; Forbes.com Some excerpts: The 2 percent decrease, reported by the National Center for Health Statistics, came as a shock to many, because the U.S. is aging, growing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6301,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions\/6301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}