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List of U.S. states and territories by life expectancy

List of U.S. states and territories by life expectancy

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This article presents a list of United States states and territories sorted by their life expectancy at birth, sex, race, and in the past. The data in the 2018 column is taken from work funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the 50 states and the District of Columbia;[9] from the World Bank for Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands; and from the CIA World Factbook for American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands.[10] Data in the 2010 columns comes from Health Data.[11]

Remaining life expectancy is the expected remaining number of years of life as a function of current age.[1] Life expectancy at birth is indicated above the "0" current age.
Life expectancy in the US states in 2019[2]
Life expectancy in the US states in 2020[3]
Alernative visualization of data for 2020[3]
Development of life expectancy in the US according to estimation of the World Bank Group[4]
Life expectancy with calculated gender gap[4]
Life expectancy in the US in comparison to president of the country[4]
Life expectancy in the US according to estimation of
the Our World in Data[5]
Life Expectancy in the U.S. by race 1900-2019[6]
Life expectancy in the USA by race and sex[7]
Life expectancy in the USA by race and sex with calculated sex gap[7]
Percentage surviving to certain ages in the U.S. in 2020[7]
Development of life expectancy in the US in comparison to China and Russia[4]
Development of life expectancy in the US in comparison to other big countries of the world[4]
Development of life expectancy in the US in comparison to some other countries of North America[4]
Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in the US on the background of other countries of the world in 2019[8]
Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy for males and females[8]

Overall, life expectancy at birth in Hawaii, Washington, California, and New York (state) are among the longest in the nation, while life expectancy at birth in Mississippi, American Samoa, and West Virginia are among the shortest in the nation.

The life expectancy in some states has fallen in recent years; for example, Maine's life expectancy in 2010 was 79.1 years, and in 2018 it was 78.7 years. The Washington Post noted in November 2018 that overall life expectancy in the United States was declining although in 2018 life expectancy had a slight increase of 0.1 and bringing it to having not changed since 2010.[12]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2020)

Life expectancy at birth in each U.S. state and the District of Columbia in 2019 and 2020 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention[2][3]

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US Mortality DataBase (2019)

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Past life expectancy, 1940–2019

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Life expectancy in counties with 500,000+ people in 2019

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References

  1. "Actuarial Life Table". U.S. Social Security Administration Office of Chief Actuary. 2020. Archived from the original on July 8, 2023.
  2. Arias, Elizabeth; Xu, Jiaquan; Tejada-Vera, Betzaida; Bastian, Brigham (10 February 2022). "U.S. State Life Tables, 2019" (PDF). National Vital Statistics Reports. 70 (18). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: 3. — Table A
  3. Arias, Elizabeth; Xu, Jiaquan; Tejada-Vera, Betzaida; Murphy, Sherry L.; Bastian, Brigham (23 August 2022). "U.S. State Life Tables, 2020" (PDF). National Vital Statistics Reports. 71 (2). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: 3. — Table A
  4. Arias, Elizabeth; Xu, Jiaquan; M.D, M. (8 August 2022). "United States Life Tables, 2020" (PDF). National Vital Statistics Reports. 71 (1). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  5. "Life Expectancy". University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. 2022. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
  6. "US Health Map". Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington. 2014. Retrieved May 22, 2021.
  7. Bernstein, Lenny (November 29, 2018). "U.S. life expectancy declines again, a dismal trend not seen since World War I". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 22, 2021.
  8. "CIA world factbook". Archived from the original on 2019-01-09. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  9. "Country Profiles". Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluarion, University of Washington. Retrieved May 22, 2021.

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