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

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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.

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The remaining life expectancy is the expected remaining number of years of life as a function of current age, 2020 statistics.[1] Life expectancy at birth is indicated above the "0" current age.
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A chart of US life expectancy, World Bank Group, 2022.[2]
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US life expectancy by gender, with gender gap, 2022.[2]
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US life expectancy in comparison to the US President, 2023.[2]
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U.S. life expectancy, 2021, Our World in Data.[3]
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US life expectancy by state, 2020.[4]

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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U.S. life expectancy by state, 2019–2021.[9][4][10]
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US Mortality DataBase (2014–2021)

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By default the table is sorted by 2019.

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Data source: US Mortality DataBase, 2025.[11]

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U.S. life expectancy by state in 2014 and 2019, according to the US Mortality DataBase.[11]
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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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U.S. life expectancy by race, 1900 to 2019.[12]
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U.S. life expectancy by race, and sex, 2021.[13]
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U.S. life expectancy by race and sex, with sex gap, 2021.[13]
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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

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Data source: National Center for Health Statistics, 2022.[15]

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The percent of people surviving to certain ages by race and sex in the US, 2019.[15]

Data of the United States Mortality DataBase

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The percent of US people surviving to certain ages by gender, 2019, US Mortality DataBase.[16]

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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Data source: US Mortality DataBase, 2025.[16][17][18]

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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.

See also

International:

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References

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