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

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 71.9 years
RI 75.9 years
DE 73.3 years
CT 76.3 years
NJ 76.3 years
MD 74.3 years
MA 76.9 years
VT 75.7 years
NH 76.1 years

Lowest: 67.7 to 71.6 years
Group 2: 71.6 to 72.7 years
Group 3: 72.7 to 74.2 years
Group 4: 74.2 to 75.7 years
Highest: 75.7 to 77 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	77
2	Massachusetts	76.9
3	Connecticut	76.3
3	Minnesota	76.3
3	New Jersey	76.3
3	New York	76.3
3	Utah	76.3
8	New Hampshire	76.1
9	Rhode Island	75.9
10	Washington	75.8
11	Vermont	75.7
12	Nebraska	75.4
13	California	75.3
14	Iowa	75.2
14	Wisconsin	75.2
16	Colorado	75
16	North Dakota	75
18	Idaho	74.8
18	Oregon	74.8
20	Maryland	74.3
21	Illinois	74.2
21	Virginia	74.2
23	South Dakota	74.1
24	Maine	73.8
25	Pennsylvania	73.6
26	Kansas	73.4
27	Delaware	73.3
28	Florida	73.1
28	Montana	73.1
30	Michigan	72.9
31	Texas	72.7
32	Wyoming	72.5
33	Nevada	72.4
34	Alaska	72.2
35	Arizona	72
35	North Carolina	72
37	District of Columbia	71.9
38	Indiana	71.8
39	Ohio	71.7
40	Georgia	71.6
40	Missouri	71.6
42	South Carolina	70.4
43	Oklahoma	70
44	Arkansas	69.7
45	Kentucky	69.6
46	New Mexico	69.4
46	Tennessee	69.4
48	Alabama	68.9
49	Louisiana	68.8
50	West Virginia	68.1
51	Mississippi	67.7

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: Male (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-male/

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