Life expectancy in the United States, by age

Name: Life expectancy in the United States by age and sex (2023)
Creator: World Health Organization
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo/

On average, a newborn in the United States can expect to live 78.5 years: 80.9 for girls and 76.2 for boys (World Health Organization, 2023). That's 5.2 years more than the world average of 73.3, and ranks 48th of 185 countries in the WHO's tables.

52.1 yearsleft on average for a 30-year-old woman, about 1.64 billion seconds

47.5 yearsleft on average for a 30-year-old man, about 1.50 billion seconds

19.4 yearsleft on average at 65, everyone

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Average years left at each age

Each row is the average number of further years lived by people who reach that age, using the mortality rates of 2023. It rises past the at-birth figure for older ages because those people have already survived the earlier years.

Age	Women	Men	Everyone
0	80.9	76.2	78.5
1	80.3	75.7	77.9
5	76.3	71.8	74.0
10	71.4	66.8	69.0
15	66.4	61.9	64.1
20	61.5	57.1	59.3
25	56.7	52.5	54.5
30	51.9	47.9	49.9
35	47.1	43.4	45.2
40	42.4	39.0	40.7
45	37.8	34.6	36.2
50	33.2	30.2	31.7
55	28.8	26.0	27.4
60	24.5	22.1	23.3
65	20.4	18.4	19.4
70	16.5	14.9	15.8
75	12.8	11.6	12.3
80	9.5	8.6	9.1
85+	6.5	6.1	6.3

Source: WHO Global Health Observatory, life tables (2023), licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. Averages describe whole populations, not any one person; health, habits, income and luck matter far more.

United States, single years of age (SSA)

For the US, LifeClock uses the Social Security Administration's 2023 period life table from the 2026 Trustees Report, which gives every age from 0 to 119. At 30, a woman has 52.1 more years on average and a man 47.5; at 65, 20.7 and 18.1.

Show all ages, 0 to 119

Age	Women	Men
0	81.06	75.79
1	80.48	75.25
2	79.51	74.28
3	78.53	73.31
4	77.54	72.33
5	76.55	71.34
6	75.56	70.35
7	74.57	69.36
8	73.58	68.37
9	72.59	67.38
10	71.59	66.39
11	70.60	65.39
12	69.61	64.40
13	68.62	63.41
14	67.63	62.43
15	66.64	61.45
16	65.66	60.48
17	64.67	59.51
18	63.69	58.56
19	62.72	57.62
20	61.74	56.69
21	60.77	55.76
22	59.80	54.83
23	58.83	53.90
24	57.86	52.98
25	56.90	52.06
26	55.93	51.14
27	54.97	50.23
28	54.00	49.32
29	53.04	48.41
30	52.08	47.50
31	51.13	46.60
32	50.18	45.70
33	49.23	44.81
34	48.28	43.91
35	47.34	43.02
36	46.39	42.13
37	45.45	41.24
38	44.51	40.36
39	43.58	39.47
40	42.64	38.59
41	41.71	37.71
42	40.78	36.83
43	39.86	35.95
44	38.93	35.08
45	38.01	34.21
46	37.10	33.34
47	36.18	32.48
48	35.27	31.62
49	34.36	30.76
50	33.45	29.90
51	32.55	29.05
52	31.66	28.21
53	30.77	27.38
54	29.89	26.55
55	29.01	25.73
56	28.14	24.92
57	27.28	24.12
58	26.42	23.34
59	25.57	22.56
60	24.73	21.79
61	23.90	21.04
62	23.08	20.29
63	22.27	19.56
64	21.46	18.83
65	20.66	18.12
66	19.87	17.41
67	19.08	16.71
68	18.30	16.02
69	17.53	15.34
70	16.76	14.66
71	16.01	14.00
72	15.26	13.34
73	14.53	12.69
74	13.81	12.05
75	13.10	11.42
76	12.41	10.80
77	11.73	10.19
78	11.08	9.61
79	10.44	9.04
80	9.82	8.50
81	9.22	7.97
82	8.64	7.46
83	8.08	6.97
84	7.54	6.50
85	7.02	6.04
86	6.53	5.61
87	6.05	5.20
88	5.61	4.81
89	5.19	4.45
90	4.80	4.11
91	4.44	3.80
92	4.10	3.50
93	3.79	3.23
94	3.50	2.99
95	3.23	2.77
96	2.99	2.58
97	2.77	2.41
98	2.57	2.27
99	2.39	2.15
100	2.23	2.04
101	2.08	1.93
102	1.94	1.83
103	1.82	1.72
104	1.70	1.63
105	1.59	1.54
106	1.48	1.45
107	1.38	1.36
108	1.29	1.28
109	1.20	1.20
110	1.13	1.13
111	1.05	1.05
112	0.98	0.98
113	0.92	0.92
114	0.85	0.85
115	0.79	0.79
116	0.74	0.74
117	0.68	0.68
118	0.63	0.63
119	0.58	0.58

Source: SSA Office of the Chief Actuary, Actuarial Life Table. U.S. government work, public domain.

What these numbers mean

A period life table is a snapshot: it applies one year's death rates to every age. If health keeps improving, people born today will likely live longer than these figures. Treat them as a rough guide to the time ahead, not a forecast.

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