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

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 75.3 years
RI 78.5 years
DE 76.3 years
CT 79.2 years
NJ 79 years
MD 77.2 years
MA 79.6 years
VT 78.4 years
NH 78.5 years

Lowest: 70.9 to 74.3 years
Group 2: 74.3 to 75.4 years
Group 3: 75.4 to 77.1 years
Group 4: 77.1 to 78.2 years
Highest: 78.2 to 79.9 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	79.9
2	Massachusetts	79.6
3	Connecticut	79.2
4	New Jersey	79
4	New York	79
6	Minnesota	78.8
7	New Hampshire	78.5
7	Rhode Island	78.5
9	Vermont	78.4
10	California	78.3
11	Utah	78.2
11	Washington	78.2
13	Nebraska	77.8
13	Wisconsin	77.8
15	Colorado	77.7
15	Iowa	77.7
17	North Dakota	77.6
18	Oregon	77.4
19	Idaho	77.2
19	Maryland	77.2
21	Illinois	77.1
22	Virginia	76.8
23	Maine	76.7
24	South Dakota	76.6
25	Pennsylvania	76.4
26	Delaware	76.3
27	Florida	76.1
28	Kansas	76
29	Montana	75.8
30	Michigan	75.7
31	Texas	75.4
32	District of Columbia	75.3
33	Nevada	75.1
34	Arizona	75
34	Wyoming	75
36	North Carolina	74.9
37	Indiana	74.6
37	Missouri	74.6
39	Alaska	74.5
39	Ohio	74.5
41	Georgia	74.3
42	South Carolina	73.5
43	New Mexico	73
44	Oklahoma	72.7
45	Arkansas	72.5
46	Tennessee	72.4
47	Kentucky	72.3
48	Louisiana	72.2
49	Alabama	72
50	West Virginia	71
51	Mississippi	70.9

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: Total (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-total/

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