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Women's life expectancy at 65: U.S. states ranked (2022)

Measure: Women's life expectancy at 65 (years). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Life expectancy at 65 by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2022.

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Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated
2026-11-11
Download full table CSVSource: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics (U.S. State Life Tables, 2022 (National Vital Statistics Reports vol. 74 no. 12), state tables 1–3) (opens in a new tab)Source: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics (United States Life Tables, 2022 (National Vital Statistics Reports vol. 74 no. 2), tables 1–3) (opens in a new tab)

National value: 20.2 (United States).

Washington: 20.3Idaho: 20Montana: 20.3North Dakota: 20.9Minnesota: 20.7Michigan: 19.5Ohio: 19Pennsylvania: 19.9New York: 21.1Vermont: 20.9New Hampshire: 20.1Maine: 19.9Arizona: 20.1California: 21New Mexico: 19.9Texas: 19.5Louisiana: 18.8Mississippi: 17.9Alabama: 18.3Florida: 20.7Georgia: 19.1South Carolina: 19.3North Carolina: 19.3Virginia: 19.7District of Columbia: 20.2Maryland: 20.2Delaware: 19.9New Jersey: 20.8Connecticut: 21Rhode Island: 20.6Massachusetts: 20.8Oregon: 20Utah: 19.8Wyoming: 19.6Nevada: 19.3Colorado: 20.4South Dakota: 20.7Nebraska: 20.2Kansas: 19.2Oklahoma: 18Iowa: 19.9Missouri: 19Wisconsin: 20.3Illinois: 19.9Kentucky: 17.8Arkansas: 18.2Tennessee: 18.3West Virginia: 17.7Indiana: 18.9Alaska: 19.6Hawaii: 22.1

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • DC 20.2 years
  • RI 20.6 years
  • DE 19.9 years
  • CT 21 years
  • NJ 20.8 years
  • MD 20.2 years
  • MA 20.8 years
  • VT 20.9 years
  • NH 20.1 years
  • Lowest: 17.7 to 19 years
  • Group 2: 19 to 19.7 years
  • Group 3: 19.7 to 20.1 years
  • Group 4: 20.1 to 20.7 years
  • Highest: 20.7 to 22.1 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.

1Hawaii22.1
2New York21.1
3California21
3Connecticut21
5North Dakota20.9
5Vermont20.9
7Massachusetts20.8
7New Jersey20.8
9Florida20.7
9Minnesota20.7
9South Dakota20.7
12Rhode Island20.6
13Colorado20.4
14Montana20.3
14Washington20.3
14Wisconsin20.3
17District of Columbia20.2
17Maryland20.2
17Nebraska20.2
20Arizona20.1
20New Hampshire20.1
22Idaho20
22Oregon20
24Delaware19.9
24Illinois19.9
24Iowa19.9
24Maine19.9
24New Mexico19.9
24Pennsylvania19.9
30Utah19.8
31Virginia19.7
32Alaska19.6
32Wyoming19.6
34Michigan19.5
34Texas19.5
36Nevada19.3
36North Carolina19.3
36South Carolina19.3
39Kansas19.2
40Georgia19.1
41Missouri19
41Ohio19
43Indiana18.9
44Louisiana18.8
45Alabama18.3
45Tennessee18.3
47Arkansas18.2
48Oklahoma18
49Mississippi17.9
50Kentucky17.8
51West Virginia17.7

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.

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U.S. states ranked by women's life expectancy at 65 (years) (2022). Data: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. State Life Tables, 2022 (National Vital Statistics Reports vol. 74 no. 12) and United States Life Tables, 2022 (vol. 74 no. 2); rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-11. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-womens-life-expectancy-at-65/

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