But life expectancy, like the stock market, tends to be stochastic with an upward trend, it might have dipped, low-money times and all, less people going in for treatment in marginal situations, increased suicides, increased accidental deaths from higher risks (cars less maintained, roads less maintained, houses less maintained, increased crime) so it might have plunged and not just 'grown less', I'd doubt they've compiled the data yet, too recent. Either way, whether or decrease in total or a decrease in growth, it's a temporary blip.