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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 ...
Life expectancy can be used to gauge the overall health of a population and is defined as the average number of years a group of infants would live if they were to experience the age-specific death rates that are present in their birth year. [13] White Americans have historically exhibited an advantage over large portions of the US population ...
This article ranks states of the United States sorted by changes in the life expectancy of their residents between 1985 and 2010. Changes in the life expectancy of men and women in each state are also sorted. States are also ranked for three risk factors controllable by the individual: obesity, smoking, and physical activity.
The difference in life expectancy between men and women in the United States dropped from 7.8 years in 1979 to 5.3 years in 2005, with women expected to live to age 80.1 in 2005. [87] Data from the United Kingdom shows the gap in life expectancy between men and women decreasing in later life.
A study by Jack M. Guralnik, Kenneth C. Land, Dan Blazer, Gerda G. Fillenbaum, and Laurence G. Branch found that education had a substantially stronger relation to total life expectancy and active life expectancy than did race. While 65-year-old black men had a lower total life expectancy (11.4 years) and active life expectancy (10 years) than ...
List of British regions by life expectancy; List of U.S. congressional districts by life expectancy; List of U.S. counties with longest life expectancy; List of U.S. counties with shortest life expectancy; List of U.S. states and territories by life expectancy; List of U.S. states by changes in life expectancy, 1985–2010
For example, an 1871 census in the UK (the first of its kind, but personal data from other censuses dates back to 1841 and numerical data back to 1801) found the average male life expectancy as being 44, but if infant mortality is subtracted, males who lived to adulthood averaged 75 years. The present life expectancy in the UK is 77 years for ...
Average U.S. life expectancy in the United States has actually declined in four of the years following 2014 (the year when average U.S. life expectancy reached 78.9 years, its historical peak). [125] These declines were mostly reversed in both 2022 (+1.1 years) and 2023 (+0.9 year). [126]