Life expectancy
NCHS's annual state life tables: life expectancy at birth by state and by sex, from one calendar year of death records and population estimates.
Figures
Years
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. State Life Expectancy by Sex. Data period 2021. Published .
Pages built on this dataset
Publisher
- Organization
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Publisher’s dataset
- U.S. State Life Expectancy by Sex
- File or API used
- https://data.cdc.gov/resource/it4f-frdc.json
- Methodology
- https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data-visualization/state-life-expectancy/
Coverage
- Geography
- States, the District of Columbia and (2018-2020) the nation
- Time coverage
- 2018-2021
- Update frequency
- Annual, roughly three years behind the current year
- Published
- September 2026
- Retrieved
- September 25, 2026
- License of the records
- Public domain. U.S. federal government work.
- Rows
- 621 observations, 2018-2021
Measures
| Measure | What it measures | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Life expectancy at birth | Expected years of life at birth, based on that year's death rates. | years |
Caveats
- Each year is a period life table built from that single calendar year's deaths and population, not a cohort followed over time or a multi-year average.
- NCHS publishes one state life-expectancy release per calendar year and runs about three years behind; 2021 is the most recent as of this dataset's retrieval.
- The 2021 release does not include a United States national figure.
How to cite
Understand Idaho, “U.S. State Life Expectancy by Sex”, compiled from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. State Life Expectancy by Sex. Retrieved September 25, 2026. https://understandidaho.com/data/cdc-life-expectancy/.
Cite Centers for Disease Control and Prevention directly for the figures themselves.
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