In the National Vital Statistics Report, the CDC found the average life expectancy in the United States is 78.7 years old. Women are likely to outlive men by five years nationwide.
Here, states are ranked from the longest life expectancy in years to the lowest:
- Hawaii — 81
- California — 80.8
- New York — 80.5 (tied)
- Minnesota — 80.5 (tied)
- Connecticut — 80.4
- Massachusetts — 80.1
- Washington — 80.0 (tied)
- Colorado — 80.0 (tied)
- New Jersey — 79.8 (tied)
- Rhode Island — 79.8 (tied)
- Oregon — 79.7
- Utah — 79.6
- Vermont — 79.3 (tied)
- North Dakota— 79.3 (tied)
- Wisconsin — 79.3 (tied)
- Iowa — 79.2
- New Hampshire — 79.1 (tied)
- Nebraska — 79.1 (tied)
- Idaho — 79.0 (tied)
- Virginia — 79.0 (tied)
- South Dakota — 78.9 (tied)
- Florida — 78.9 (tied)
- Illinois — 78.8
- Montana — 78.7 (tied)
- Arizona — 78.7 (tied)
- Maine — 78.6
- Maryland — 78.5
- Texas — 78.4
- Pennsylvania — 78.1 (tied)
- Wyoming — 78.1 (tied)
- Kansas — 78.0 (tied)
- Alaska— 78.0 (tied)
- Nevada — 77.9
- Delaware — 77.8
- Michigan — 77.7 (tied)
- District of Columbia — 77.7 (tied)
- North Carolina — 77.6
- Georgia — 77.2 (tied)
- New Mexico — 77.2 (tied)
- Indiana — 76.8 (tied)
- Ohio — 76.8 (tied)
- Missouri — 76.6
- South Carolina — 76.5
- Arkansas — 75.6 (tied)
- Oklahoma — 75.6 (tied)
- Louisiana — 75.6 (tied)
- Tennessee — 75.5
- Kentucky — 75.3
- Alabama — 75.1
- Mississippi — 74.6
- West Virginia — 74.4
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