A large disparity has opened up in life expectancy in the United States, with southern states like Mississippi and Alabama lagging far behind their peers in the northeast and out west.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report Thursday on life expectancy in the US and state by state from 2019 – the most recent full dataset available. This will be the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic, which dramatically changes Americans’ living expectations starting in 2020.
Overall, Americans are projected to live 78.8 years, with women living five years longer than men, averaging 81.4 years longer than their male counterparts, living an average of 76.3 years.
Mississippi has the lowest life expectancy of any US state, with the average person born in the state expected to live to be 74.4 years old. This burden is particularly low for men born in the state of Magnolia, who live an average of 71.2 years.
The report highlights how poverty, especially in the South, can have harmful effects on a person’s quality of life. Mississippi has the highest poverty rate of any U.S. state, with one in five residents living in poverty, with states like Alabama and West Virginia also among those with the lowest life expectancy and poverty rates. the highest poverty rate.
A CDC report released this week found that southern states with high poverty rates like Mississippi, West Virginia, Alabama and Kentucky have the worst life expectations. The western and northeastern states such as Hawaii, California, and New York have
Life expectancy fell from 2018 to 2019 in 14 states, with the largest declines in North Dakota and South Dakota. Vermont and Idaho had the biggest increase in life expectancy that year
Hawaii and California have the longest life expectancies in the US, with people born in either state expected to live 80.9 years. Hawaiian women live the longest in the US, averaging 83.9 years.
Each of the nine states with the worst overall life expectancy are southern states in the southern United States, also among the 12 states with the highest poverty rates in 2019, according to Census data.
Along with Mississippi, these include: West Virginia (74.5 years of expected life expectancy), Alabama (75.2), Kentucky (75.5), Tennessee (75.6), Arkansas (75.7), Oklahoma ( 75.7), Louisiana (75.7) and South Carolina (76.8).
Meanwhile, the states with the longest life expectancy for those born in them are largely concentrated in the northeastern and western regions of the US.
The leaders, along with Hawaii and California, include New York (80.7), Minnesota (80.4), Massachusetts (80.4), Connecticut (80.3), New Jersey (80.1), Washington (80), Colorado (80) and Vermont (79.8).
None of these states have a poverty rate above 13 percent. About 11% of Americans overall are living in poverty.
There is a clear correlation between income and life expectancy in the United States and around the world.
A study published by the National Institutes of Health in 2017 found that the top one percent of Americans live 14 years longer on average than the poorest one percent.
A separate study from last year found that Americans who live in rural areas – and generally have fewer assets than those in urban areas – live shorter lives and are more likely to suffer from the ‘disease of despair’. ‘ than.
In three states, women are expected to live six or more years longer than men born in the same state.
Women overall live longer than men in the United States, with the largest disparity being that the average life expectancy of Mississippi women is 6.4 years longer than that of men from the state.
Mississippi, women live 6.4 years longer on average. The difference is 6.2 years in New Mexico and six years in Alabama.
Utah is the only state where the gap is less than 4 years, and there is a large margin, with men only having an expected life expectancy 3.5 years shorter than women.
Overall, life expectancy increased 0.1 years in 2019 compared to 2018. This number decreased in 14 states from last year, even in 5 states and increased in the remaining 31 states.
However, North Dakota and South Dakota experienced the largest declines in life expectancy, each losing half their life expectancy between 208 and 2019. However, in Idaho and Vermont, people received half of their life expectancy. longevity.
The CDC report does not discuss causes of death, but the agency reports elsewhere that heart disease was the leading cause of death in the US that year, killing 700,000 Americans.
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