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African American life expectancy at birth is persistently five to seven years lower than European Americans. [17] By 2018 that difference had shrunk to 3.6 years. [18] As of 2020, Hispanics had a life expectancy at birth of 78.8 years, followed by non-Hispanic Whites at 77.6 years and non-Hispanic blacks at 71.8 Years. [19]
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 ...
— Changes in life expectancy varied by race and ethnicity. Hispanic Americans and American Indians and Alaska Natives saw life expectancy rise more than two years in 2022. Black life expectancy ...
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]
Life expectancy at birth was 78.4 years for the total U.S. population in 2023, according to the report released Thursday, an increase of nearly a full year from 77.5 years in 2022. The report ...
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.
Race and ethnicity often remain undifferentiated in health research. [2] [3] Differences in health status, health outcomes, life expectancy, and many other indicators of health in different racial and ethnic groups are well documented. [4]
The study looked at the contributions of COVID-19 and other underlying causes of death to the life expectancy gender gap from 2010 to 2021. It found that the difference in how long men and women ...