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A broad and common measure of the health of a population is its life expectancy. The life expectancy in 1850 of a White person in the United States was forty; for a slave, it was thirty-six. [1] Mortality statistics for Whites were calculated from census data; statistics for slaves were based on small sample-sizes. [1]
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 ...
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). [124] These declines were mostly reversed in both 2022 (+1.1 years) and 2023 (+0.9 year). [125]
A 2022 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics found the average life expectancy in the US was 77.5 years. ... US at 79.2 years. The Census ...
1940. Overall life expectancy: 62.9 Women: 65.2 Men: 60.8 The United States began the ’40s on an upswing, with life expectancy up sharply from 58.5 years in 1936, when the nation was still ...
Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS) is a compendium of statistics about United States. Published by the United States Census Bureau until 1975, it is now published by Cambridge University Press. The last free version, the Bicentennial Edition, [1] appeared in two volumes in 1975 and is now available online. [2]
The average 65-year-old had a life expectancy of 18.9 years, as of 2022, which is down from 19.6 years in 2019, but up from 18.4 years in 2021. The average 80-year-old has a life expectancy of 8.9 ...
The twentieth century witnessed a great expansion of the upper bounds of the human life span. At the beginning of the century, average life expectancy in the United States was 47 years. By the century's end, the average life expectancy had risen to over 70 years, and it was not unusual for Americans to exceed 80 years of age.