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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 ...
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.
This list of U.S. counties with longest life expectancy includes 51 counties, and county equivalents, out of a grand total of 3,142 counties or county equivalents in the United States. Most of the counties where people live longest are either sparsely populated or well-to-do suburbs of large cities.
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 ...
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.
Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy by sex in 2019 [1] Pink: Countries where female life expectancy at birth is higher than males. Blue: A few countries in southern Africa where females have shorter lives due to AIDS. (2015) [82] "Gender Die Gap": global female life expectancy gap at birth for countries and territories as defined by WHO ...
Life expectancy in the U.S. is projected to increase from 78.3 years in 2022 to 79.9 years in 2035 and to 80.4 years in 2050 for all sexes combined, researchers said.
Life expectancy has also varied by racial and ethnic group, with Non-Hispanic Asians having the highest life expectancy and Non-Hispanic American Indians having the lowest. [129] In 2021, life expectancy at birth in the United States fell for the second year in a row, the first two-year drop since 1961–1963. [130]