Researchers at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics looked at residents’ life expectancies in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. in 2019.
People living in the South had the lowest life expectancies.
The average life expectancy in the state of Mississippi was 74.4 years, significantly below the national average of 78.8 years. According to numbers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Mississippi also had the greatest share of people living below the poverty line that same year. The states of West Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, South Carolina and Ohio also had life expectancies below the national average.Women there lived even longer – 83.9 years.Other states with high life expectancies included California, New York, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Washington state, Colorado and Vermont.The report did not mention how the COVID-19 pandemic affected life expectancies.
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