QuickStats: Life Expectancy at Birth, by Sex — United States, 2019–2022

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Life expectancy at birth for the U.S. population in 2022 was 77.5 years, an increase from 76.4 years in 2021.
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A data story from the National Center for Health Statistics

Authors: Arialdi M. Miniño, MPH, and Jiaquan Xu, MD

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Line chart showing life expectancy for the total population.
This line chart shows life expectancy at birth for the total population, males, and females from 2019 through 2022.

Life expectancy at birth for the U.S. population in 2022 was 77.5 years, an increase from 76.4 years in 2021.

Although life expectancy rose in 2022 for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, it remains lower compared with prepandemic life expectancy in 2019 (78.8 years).

This pattern was similar for males and females.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7313a5.htm

Supplementary Table: https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/151563

Sources

National Vital Statistics System, United States Life Tables, 2021. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr72/nvsr72-12.pdf.

Mortality in the United States, 2022. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db492.htm.

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