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The highest ranked state for life expectancy in 2019 was Hawaii, with 80.9 years, according to a federal report released Thursday. Mississippi came in last, with a life expectancy of 74.4 years.
After Hawaii, California, New York, Minnesota, and Massachusetts rounded out the top five states with the highest life expectancy at birth overall for men and women at 2019.
The report revealed that Mississippi had the lowest life expectancy in the country, with 74.4 years, well below the national average of 78.8.
And after Mississippi, followed by West Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, South Carolina and Ohio with the lowest life expectancies. All of these states were below the national median for life expectancy.
The report from the National Center for Health Statistics, which relies on CDC, classified the 21 states and the District of Columbia using state-specific population and death figures for 2018. Reflected that life expectancy at birth for the entire United States that year was 74.8 years: an increase of 0.1 years from the previous year.
The figures of 2019 are from a time period prior to the COVID-pandemic 19, which affected the nation’s average life expectancy.
A July CDC report estimated that life expectancy in the US The US fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II. The decrease among men was even greater, with about 2 years lost.
In the report of 2019, there were notable differences when expectations were broken down by gender; life expectancy was consistently higher among female populations in the 50 states and DC
“The difference in life expectancy between the sexes in the United States was 5.1 years in 2019, from a high of 6.4 years in Mississippi to a low of 3.5 years in Utah,” the report says. “With a few exceptions, the states with the largest sex differences are those with the shortest life expectancies at birth, while the smallest sex differences are found primarily among the states with the longest life expectancies.”
The report also ranked states by life expectancy at 65 years. Hawaii was again on top, ranking first among the population in general with .2 years, as well as for specific populations of men and women: 19.4 and 21. 9 years, respectively.
“Of 2018 to the life expectancy at birth decreased by states”, Dec and the report. “Decreases ranged from 0.1 to 0.5 years. Life expectancy stayed the same in 5 states and increased by 31 states and DC Increases ranged from 0.1 to 0.5 years.”
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