Americans had the shortest life expectancy at birth, with men living to an average age of 76.5 years in 2019 and women living an average of nearly 81.5 years. ADVERTISEMENT.

Among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, U.S. life expectancy does not even appear on the list of the top 20 countries.

Asian women in the U.S. have the highest life expectancy, at about 86, Hispanic women can expect to live until about age 83 and White women until age 80, according to the data.

Finally, U.S. life-expectancy statistics are skewed by the fact that the U.S. doesn’t have one health-care system, but three: Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance.

Life expectancy dropped to 76.4 years at birth, according to two new reports published by the CDC National Center for Health Statistics. That’s down from the age of 77 in 2020.

Americans have an overall life expectancy of 78.7 years, according to the report. Women fare better than men, with higher life expectancies in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Americans born in southern states faced the lowest life expectancies in 2018, according to a new report issued by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The life expectancy among Native Americans in the western United States has dropped below 64 years, close to life expectancies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Haiti.

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