This article presents a list of United States states and territories sorted by their life expectancy at birth, sex, race, and in the past.
According to estimation of the United Nations, in 2023 life expectancy in the US was 79.30 years (76.86 for male, 81.85 for female).
Estimation of the World Bank Group for 2023: 78.39 years total (75.80 for male, 81.10 for female).<br>
According to estimation of the WHO for 2019, at that year life expectancy in the US was 78.74 years (76.53 years for male and 80.98 years for female).<br> And healthy life expectancy was 66.02 years (65.13 years for male and 66.93 years for female). the highest life expectancy was in states California, Hawaii, New York, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Connecticut.<br> And at the bottom of the list were Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, West Virginia, Mississippi.
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.
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, 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. Data in the 2010 columns comes from Health Data.
The life expectancy at birth in each U.S. state and the District of Columbia from 2019 to 2021, according to .
By default the table is sorted by 2019.
Data source: US Mortality DataBase, 2025.
Data source: Global Data Lab, 2021.
The percentage surviving is the percent of the population that would survive to a certain age, if their life conditions in a given year were extrapolated to their whole life.
Data source: National Center for Health Statistics, 2022.
The table below contains data about percentage surviving 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.
Data source: US Mortality DataBase, 2025.
The charts below compare life expectancy in the U.S. with life expectancy in other countries.
International: