Women in the U.S. can expect to live shorter lives than women in similarly wealthy nations, according to a brief from the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit research group focused on health care. In ...

Alabama ranks third-lowest, with a life expectancy of 72 years. Chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension are widespread due to high obesity and smoking rates.

T he life expectancy among Native Americans in the western United States has dropped below 64 years, ... we’re going to have this very low life expectancy,” said Kathleen Harris, ...

US life expectancy will sink to 66th in the world by 2050, according to a major study. Americans already die younger than their contemporaries in about 50 other countries.

Americans had the shortest life expectancy at birth, with men living to an average age of 76.5 years in 2019 and women living an average of nearly 81.5 years.

Washington is not the only state to see a decline. Nationally, life expectancy was 76.4 years in 2021, down from 78.8 years in 2019. Overall, our state ranks 11th in terms of expected lifespan.

A new study found that the gap in life expectancy between American Indians and Alaska Natives and the national average was 2.9 times greater than official U.S. statistics.

The life expectancy among Native Americans in the western United States has dropped below 64 years, close to life expectancies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Haiti. For many Asian ...

Since 2000, the average life expectancy of many American Indians and Alaska Natives has been steadily shrinking. The same has been true since 2014 for Black people in low-income counties in the ...

The life expectancy among Native Americans in the western United States has dropped below 64 years, ... Economists have shown that people with low incomes generally live shorter lives.

On average, Black people in the U.S. have long experienced worse health than other races and ethnicities in the United States, except for Native Americans. But this analysis reveals a steady ...