The female-male life expectancy gap in the US has widened to its broadest point in almost 25 years. According to CDC data, the difference in life expectancy between women and men reached nearly 6 years in 2021. However, this is a drop from 1975 when the gap peaked at 7.8 years. The CDC’s latest Vital Statistics Report revealed that overall life expectancy (in large part due to Covid-19 deaths) had fallen to 76.4 years, down from 78.8 only 2 years prior,  concurrent with a 2.8-year decrease in life expectancy at birth for males, to just 73.5 years.