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This article presents a list of United States states and territories sorted by their life expectancy at birth, sex, race, and in the past.
Chart and table of U.S. life expectancy from 1950 to 2024. United Nations projections are also included through the year 2100. The current life expectancy for U.S. in 2024 is 79.25 years, a 0.18% increase from 2023.
Life expectancy at birth. Both sexes: 77.5 years. Males: 74.8 years. Females: 80.2 years. Source: Mortality in the United States, 2022 (Figure 1)
Life expectancy at birth in the United States declined nearly a year from 2020 to 2021, according to new provisional data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). That decline – 77.0 to 76.1 years – took U.S. life expectancy at birth to its lowest level since 1996.
Here we present the 2021 period life table for the Social Security area population, as used in the 2024 Trustees Report (TR). For this table, the period life expectancy at a given age is the average remaining number of years expected prior to death for a person at that exact age, born on January 1, using the mortality rates for 2021 over the ...
Life expectancy at birth for the U.S. population in 2022 was 77.5 years, an increase from 76.4 years in 2021. Although life expectancy rose in 2022 for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, it remains lower compared with prepandemic life expectancy in 2019 (78.8 years).
Why is life expectancy falling in the US? COVID-19, drug overdoses, and accidental injury accounted for about two-thirds of the decline in life expectancy, according to the 2022 report. Other reasons included heart and liver disease and suicides.
A decade after a landmark report on Americans' shorter lives, the problem has only gotten worse. Unlike other wealthy nations, U.S. life expectancy has not bounced back from the pandemic.
April 13, 2023 – U.S. life expectancy has declined to 76.4 years, the shortest it’s been in nearly two decades, according to December data from the CDC.
In 2022, the CDC estimates life expectancy at birth in the U.S. increased to 77.5 years, up 1.1 years from 76.4 years in 2021, but still down 1.3 years from 78.8 years in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.