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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 ...
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.
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 ...
White Americans have historically exhibited an advantage over large portions of the US population. From 1980 to 2014, white Americans had the longest life expectancy, [13] black people had the shortest life expectancy in the US, and black men had higher racial differences in life expectancy than black women. [14]
The average life expectancy in the U.S. is 77.5 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But Americans outlive their health spans by 12.4 years, the study found.
Life expectancy in the United States is rising nearly as quickly as it fell at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic as deaths from Covid-19 and drug overdoses drop. After falling 2.4 years between ...
The residents of Oglala Lakota County (formerly Shannon County) of South Dakota live the shortest, with a life expectancy of 66.81 years—twenty years less. [3] The gap between the counties with the longest life expectancy and the shortest is widening. US life expectancy increased by more than 5 years between 1980 and 2014.
The 50 listed counties have a life expectancy at birth of 6 to 12 years less than the average life expectancy of the United States. Ten of the counties on the list, 9 of them with majority non-Hispanic white populations, experienced declines in life expectancy between 1980 and 2014. There is a wide range in life expectancy among counties in the US.