NEW YORK CITY — Life in New York City should — and could — be longer, officials said.
Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday unveiled HealthyNYC, a wide-ranging campaign to increase the city’s life expectancy to 83 years by 2030.
“New Yorkers deserve to live healthier and longer lives — not just surviving, but thriving,” he said.
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The campaign seeks to reverse a downward trend in New Yorkers’ average lifespans amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic.
The average life expectancy in the city stood at just shy of 83 years in 2019, before dropping to 78 in 2020, data shows.
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Life expectancy has barely improved since then, and not just because of COVID, said city health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan.
Health worsened across the board for New Yorkers in recent years, and unevenly across neighborhoods and demographic groups, he said.
“Today, we are making a choice to be the healthiest big city in America,” he said. “This is a campaign to take back the years stolen by COVID and all of the worsening crises like heart disease and diabetes, suicides and overdoses.”
The campaign sets the following goals by 2030:
To do so, city officials plan to, according to the mayor’s office:
More information can be found here.
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