life expectancy fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II, public health officials said Wednesday.

Health officials have not tracked Hispanic life expectancy for nearly as long, but the 2020 decline was the largest recorded one-year drop.

And rising homicides were a small but significant reason for the decline for Black Americans, said Elizabeth Arias, the report’s lead author.

—Hispanic Americans have longer life expectancy than white or Black Americans, but had the largest decline in 2020.

—Black life expectancy dropped nearly three years, to 71 years, 10 months.

—White life expectancy fell by roughly 14 months to about 77 years, 7 months.

The coronavirus was responsible for 90% of the decline in life expectancy among Hispanics, 68% among white people and 59% among Black Americans.

—Life expectancy fell nearly two years for men, but about one year for women, widening a longstanding gap.