Life expectancy at birth: United States, Canada and Mexico compared

Period life expectancy at birth for the whole population, nationally and for each state, province and estado. Each figure keeps its own source, reference period and definition; read the notes before comparing.

National values

Life expectancy at birth, national values. Periods: United States 2022; Canada 2022/2024; Mexico 2025. Caution: periods and methods differ (U.S. 2022 single-year life tables; Canada 2022/2024 three-year average; Mexico 2025 CONAPO projection, not registered deaths).

National values
Country	Life expectancy at birth	Period	Basis
United States	77.5	2022	NCHS life tables, single year
Canada	81.7	2022/2024	StatCan life tables, three-year average
Mexico	75.7	2025	CONAPO projection

Source: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. State Life Tables, 2022 (National Vital Statistics Reports vol. 74 no. 12), state tables 1–3
Source: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, United States Life Tables, 2022 (National Vital Statistics Reports vol. 74 no. 2), tables 1–3. Reference period: 2022.

Source: Statistics Canada, Table 13-10-0114-01: Life expectancy and other elements of the complete life table, three-year estimates, Canada, all provinces except Prince Edward Island. Reference period: 2022/2024.

Source: CONAPO (Consejo Nacional de Población), Proyecciones de la Población de México y de las Entidades Federativas 2020–2070: Indicadores demográficos 1950–2070 (file 05_Indicadores_demograficos_proyecciones.csv), year 2025. Reference period: 2025.

States, provinces and estados

United States Canada Mexico (hatched)

Life expectancy at birth, latest available, sorted high to low. 29 areas ranked by Life expectancy at birth. Highest: CA · Quebec (82.4); lowest: MX · Colima (76.3). Showing the 10 highest areas in each country. Caution: periods and methods differ (U.S. 2022 single-year life tables; Canada 2022/2024 three-year average; Mexico 2025 CONAPO projection, not registered deaths). Full data in the table below.Source: U.S., Canadian and Mexican official sources.

Show all 92 areas

Life expectancy at birth, latest available, sorted high to low. 92 areas ranked by Life expectancy at birth. Highest: CA · Quebec (82.4); lowest: US · West Virginia (72.2). All 92 areas. Caution: periods and methods differ (U.S. 2022 single-year life tables; Canada 2022/2024 three-year average; Mexico 2025 CONAPO projection, not registered deaths). Full data in the table below.Source: U.S., Canadian and Mexican official sources.


Quebec	Canada	82.4
Ontario	Canada	82.3
British Columbia	Canada	82.0
Alberta	Canada	80.8
Nova Scotia	Canada	80.3
New Brunswick	Canada	80.1
Hawaii	United States	80.0
Massachusetts	United States	79.8
New Jersey	United States	79.6
New York	United States	79.5
Connecticut	United States	79.4
California	United States	79.3
Minnesota	United States	79.3
Rhode Island	United States	79.2
Newfoundland and Labrador	Canada	79.2
Saskatchewan	Canada	79.0
Utah	United States	79.0
Manitoba	Canada	78.9
New Hampshire	United States	78.7
Colorado	United States	78.5
Idaho	United States	78.4
Washington	United States	78.4
Nebraska	United States	78.3
Vermont	United States	78.3
Wisconsin	United States	78.1
Florida	United States	77.9
Iowa	United States	77.9
North Dakota	United States	77.9
Nuevo León	Mexico	77.9
Maryland	United States	77.8
Oregon	United States	77.7
Illinois	United States	77.5
Virginia	United States	77.5
Baja California Sur	Mexico	77.3
Montana	United States	77.3
Pennsylvania	United States	77.3
South Dakota	United States	77.3
Coahuila de Zaragoza	Mexico	77.2
Texas	United States	77.1
Aguascalientes	Mexico	77.0
Ciudad de México	Mexico	77.0
Sonora	Mexico	76.9
Michigan	United States	76.8
Wyoming	United States	76.8
Chihuahua	Mexico	76.8
Baja California	Mexico	76.7
Arizona	United States	76.7
District of Columbia	United States	76.6
Maine	United States	76.6
Delaware	United States	76.5
Kansas	United States	76.5
Querétaro	Mexico	76.4
Nevada	United States	76.4
Colima	Mexico	76.3
Sinaloa	Mexico	76.3
Jalisco	Mexico	76.2
Quintana Roo	Mexico	76.2
Tamaulipas	Mexico	76.0
Georgia	United States	75.9
North Carolina	United States	75.9
Alaska	United States	75.8
Nayarit	Mexico	75.8
Durango	Mexico	75.7
Ohio	United States	75.6
San Luis Potosí	Mexico	75.5
Indiana	United States	75.4
México	Mexico	75.3
Missouri	United States	75.2
Yucatán	Mexico	75.2
South Carolina	United States	75.1
Guanajuato	Mexico	75.1
Campeche	Mexico	74.7
Zacatecas	Mexico	74.6
Morelos	Mexico	74.5
New Mexico	United States	74.5
Tlaxcala	Mexico	74.4
Michoacán de Ocampo	Mexico	74.3
Puebla	Mexico	74.1
Hidalgo	Mexico	74.1
Tabasco	Mexico	74.0
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave	Mexico	73.9
Arkansas	United States	73.9
Alabama	United States	73.8
Louisiana	United States	73.8
Oklahoma	United States	73.8
Tennessee	United States	73.8
Kentucky	United States	73.6
Oaxaca	Mexico	73.5
Guerrero	Mexico	73.3
Chiapas	Mexico	73.2
Mississippi	United States	72.6
West Virginia	United States	72.2

How the countries differ

Sources and methods differ: the U.S. figures are from the National Center for Health Statistics' life tables for a single year (2022), built from registered deaths; Canada's are from Statistics Canada's life tables for a three-year period, also built from registered deaths; Mexico's are CONAPO's model-based demographic projections for the year shown, not calculations from that year's registered deaths.
Reference periods differ (United States 2022, Canada 2022/2024, Mexico 2025). Life expectancy can shift by several tenths of a year from one year to the next, so gaps of a year or two between reference periods matter.
Canada's table does not publish Prince Edward Island or the territories, so they are not shown. Period life expectancy describes current death rates, not how long any group of people will actually live.
Compare areas within each country with confidence; across countries, differences of a year or more are meaningful, smaller ones less so.

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Life expectancy at birth: United States, Canada and Mexico compared. Compiled by Quadranac from CDC, National Center for Health Statistics; CONAPO (Consejo Nacional de Población); Statistics Canada. Data last updated 2026-11-11. https://quadranac.com/comparison/life-expectancy/

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