Life expectancy in the United States
1 min readMar 23, 2020
Life expectancy is defined as the average number of years that a person could expect to live if he or she experienced the age-specific mortality rates prevalent in a given country in a particular year. It does not include the effect of any future decline in age-specific mortality rates.
In 1930, life expectancy at birth in the United States was 58 for men and 62 for women. By 2001, the average U.S. life expectancy was 74 for men and 80 for women. In 2018 the average life expectancy was 80 years for males and 84 years for females.
The model projects life expectancy in the United States to rise to 86 by 2075 and to 88 by the end of the century.
