Following up on last weeks’ patriotic fourth of July post, I want to highlight some good news about the overall health of the United States. The CDC recently released preliminary data for 2025 and it turns out to have been the year with the lowest death rate ever recorded. In other words, taken as a percentage of the population, fewer Americans died in 2025 than in any year since the government began keeping records more than a century ago. And while the data on life expectancy hasn’t yet been released, this fact implies that we will soon learn that average US life expectancy is at an all-time high.
