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U.S. states ranked by life expectancy at birth: Female

All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Life expectancy at birth by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2021.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-10-26

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 78.5 years
RI 81 years
DE 79.4 years
CT 82 years
NJ 81.6 years
MD 79.9 years
MA 82.2 years
VT 81.2 years
NH 81.1 years

Lowest: 74.2 to 77.1 years
Group 2: 77.1 to 78.5 years
Group 3: 78.5 to 79.8 years
Group 4: 79.8 to 80.8 years
Highest: 80.8 to 83.1 years

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.


1	Hawaii	83.1
2	Massachusetts	82.2
3	Connecticut	82
4	New Jersey	81.6
4	New York	81.6
6	California	81.4
6	Minnesota	81.4
8	Vermont	81.2
9	New Hampshire	81.1
10	Rhode Island	81
11	Washington	80.8
12	Colorado	80.6
13	North Dakota	80.5
13	Wisconsin	80.5
15	Iowa	80.4
16	Nebraska	80.3
17	Oregon	80.2
17	Utah	80.2
19	Illinois	80
20	Maryland	79.9
21	Maine	79.8
22	Idaho	79.7
23	Delaware	79.4
23	Virginia	79.4
25	Florida	79.3
25	Pennsylvania	79.3
25	South Dakota	79.3
28	Montana	78.8
29	Kansas	78.7
30	Michigan	78.6
31	District of Columbia	78.5
32	Arizona	78.3
32	Texas	78.3
34	Nevada	78.2
35	North Carolina	77.9
36	Missouri	77.8
37	Wyoming	77.7
38	Indiana	77.5
38	Ohio	77.5
40	Alaska	77.3
41	Georgia	77.1
42	New Mexico	77
43	South Carolina	76.7
44	Louisiana	75.9
45	Arkansas	75.6
45	Oklahoma	75.6
47	Tennessee	75.5
48	Alabama	75.3
48	Kentucky	75.3
50	Mississippi	74.3
51	West Virginia	74.2

Source: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. State Life Expectancy by Sex, 2021 (data.cdc.gov dataset it4f-frdc). Reference period: 2021.

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U.S. states ranked by life expectancy at birth: Female (2021). Data: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. State Life Expectancy by Sex, 2021; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-26. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-life-expectancy-at-birth-female/

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