Rise in Americans dying ever younger: Mortality rates creep up 6% among under-65s as life expectancy falls for the third year in a row, study finds

Death rates among working-age Americans are rising, which is decreasing life expectancy, a new study suggests.

Researchers found that mortality rates for US adults between ages 25 and 64 have risen by six percent since 2010.

Despair has been named as a potential cause for the spike in deaths related to drugs, alcohol, and suicide, referred to by some as 'deaths of despair'.

They also found that life expectancy in the US rose from 1959 to 2014, and then fell from 78.9 in 2014 to 78.6 in 2017.

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