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African American life expectancy at birth is persistently five to seven years lower than European Americans. [17] By 2018 that difference had shrunk to 3.6 years. [18] As of 2020, Hispanics had a life expectancy at birth of 78.8 years, followed by non-Hispanic Whites at 77.6 years and non-Hispanic blacks at 71.8 Years. [19]
White Americans have historically exhibited an advantage over large portions of the US population. From 1980 to 2014, white Americans had the longest life expectancy, [13] black people had the shortest life expectancy in the US, and black men had higher racial differences in life expectancy than black women. [14]
Black Americans have generally shorter life expectancies than their White American counterparts. For example, white Americans in 2010 are expected to live until age 78.9, but black Americans only until age 75.1. This 3.8-year gap, however, is the lowest it has been since 1975 at the latest, the greatest difference being 7.1 years in 1993. [72]
Life expectancy in the U.S. is projected to increase from 78.3 years in 2022 to 79.9 years in 2035 and to 80.4 years in 2050 for all sexes combined, researchers said.
The dip in the life expectancy for white, non-Hispanic women in the U.S. was small but very significant, the CDC says. Life expectancy for white women in the US suffers a rare drop Skip to main ...
Race and ethnicity often remain undifferentiated in health research. [2] [3] Differences in health status, health outcomes, life expectancy, and many other indicators of health in different racial and ethnic groups are well documented. [4]
In 2021, women had a life expectancy of 79.1 years, while men had a life expectancy of 73.2 years. ... That same year, men died by suicide 3.9 times more than women, with white males comprising ...
Life expectancy has also varied by racial and ethnic group, with Non-Hispanic Asians having the highest life expectancy and Non-Hispanic American Indians having the lowest. [127] In 2021, life expectancy at birth in the United States fell for the second year in a row, the first two-year drop since 1961–1963. [128]