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List of U.S. states and territories by life expectancy
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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.






Life expectancy at birth in Hawaii, Minnesota, California, and New York are among the longest in the nation, while life expectancy at birth in Mississippi, American Samoa, and West Virginia are among the shortest in the nation.
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History
The life expectancy in some states has fallen in recent years. For example, Maine's life expectancy in 2010 was 79.1 years. In 2018, it was 78.7 years. In November 2018, overall life expectancy in the United States was declining. In 2018, US life expectancy had a slight increase of 0.1, and returning it to 2010 levels.[5]
Methodology
The data in the 2018 column is from work funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the 50 states and the District of Columbia,[6] from the World Bank for Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and from the CIA World Factbook for American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands.[7] Data in the 2010 columns comes from Health Data.[8]
National Center for Health Statistics (2019–2021)
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The life expectancy at birth in each U.S. state and the District of Columbia from 2019 to 2021, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.[9][4][10]
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US Mortality DataBase (2014–2021)
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By default the table is sorted by 2019.
Data source: US Mortality DataBase, 2025.[11]
U.S. life expectancy by state in 2014 and 2019, according to the US Mortality DataBase.[11]
Life expectancy maps in 2014 and 2019 for male and female.[11]
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Global Data Lab (2019–2021)
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Data source: Global Data Lab, 2021.[14]
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Percentage surviving in 2019
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The percentage surviving, is the percent of the population that would survive to certain age, if their life conditions in a given year, were extrapolated to their whole life.
Data of the National Center for Health Statistics
Data source: National Center for Health Statistics, 2022.[15]
The percent of people surviving to certain ages by race and sex in the US, 2019.[15]
Data of the United States Mortality DataBase

The table below contains data about percentage surving in the US on average in comparison to the data for the states of New York and California.
Males living in California are slightly more likely to overcome the 100-year mark than males living in New York. But females are slightly rarer.
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Past life expectancy, 1940–2019
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Life expectancy in counties with 500,000+ people in 2019
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Charts
The charts below compare life expectancy in the U.S. with life expectancy in other countries.
- U.S. life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, compared to other nations, 2019.[22]
- International life expectancy and healthy life expectancy for males and females, 2019.[22]
See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Life expectancy maps for the United States.
- List of U.S. congressional districts by life expectancy
- List of U.S. counties with shortest life expectancy
- List of U.S. counties with longest life expectancy
- List of U.S. states and territories by poverty rate
- Thank God for Mississippi
- Hispanic paradox
International:
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References
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