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White Americans have historically exhibited an advantage over large portions of the US population. From 1980 to 2014, white Americans had the longest life expectancy, [13] black people had the shortest life expectancy in the US, and black men had higher racial differences in life expectancy than black women. [14]
The average life expectancy in the U.S. is 77.5 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But Americans outlive their health spans by 12.4 years, the study found.
And at ages 75 and 85, both black men and black women had significantly longer life expectancies than their white peers, with the black advantage being even greater when matching for education. [21] During the 20th century, the difference in life expectancy between black and white men in the United States did not decline. [22]
Health is measured through variables such as life expectancy and incidence of diseases. [15] For racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, health disparities take on many forms, including higher rates of chronic disease, premature death, and maternal mortality compared to the rates among whites.
2021. Overall life expectancy: 76.4 Women: 79.3 Men: 73.5 On average in 2021, life expectancy for men fell quicker than women, widening a gap that had been growing over the past decade.
Women in the United States can expect to live nearly six years longer than men, as disparities in deaths from Covid-19 and drug overdoses drive the life expectancy gap to the widest it’s been in ...
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 ...
The overall life expectancy of Americans fell by 2.7 years from 2019 to 2021, and COVID-19 is not fully to blame, researchers say. Life expectancy for men now 6 years shorter than for women Skip ...