Graph and download economic data for Life Expectancy at Birth, Total for the United States (SPDYNLE00INUSA) from 1960 to 2023 about life expectancy, life, birth, and USA.

Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in United States was reported at 81.1 years in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. United States - Life expectancy at birth, female (years) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on November of 2025.

United States US: Life Expectancy at Birth: Total data was reported at 78.690 Year in 2016. This stayed constant from the previous number of 78.690 Year for 2015. United States US: Life Expectancy at Birth: Total data is updated yearly, averaging 74.766 Year from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2016, with 57 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 78.841 Year in 2014 and a record low of 69.771 Year in 1960. United States US: Life Expectancy at Birth: Total data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.World Bank.WDI: Health Statistics. Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.; ; (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2017 Revision, or derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (5) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database, and (6) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme.; Weighted average;

Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in North America was reported at 74.24 years in 2021, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. North America - Life expectancy at birth, male (years) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on October of 2025.

United States US: Life Expectancy at Birth: Female data was reported at 81.200 Year in 2016. This stayed constant from the previous number of 81.200 Year for 2015. United States US: Life Expectancy at Birth: Female data is updated yearly, averaging 78.300 Year from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2016, with 57 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 81.300 Year in 2014 and a record low of 73.100 Year in 1960. United States US: Life Expectancy at Birth: Female data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.World Bank: Health Statistics. Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.; ; (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2017 Revision. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (5) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database, and (6) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme.; Weighted average;

United States US: Life Expectancy at Birth: Male data was reported at 76.300 Year in 2016. This stayed constant from the previous number of 76.300 Year for 2015. United States US: Life Expectancy at Birth: Male data is updated yearly, averaging 71.400 Year from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2016, with 57 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 76.500 Year in 2014 and a record low of 66.000 Year in 1968. United States US: Life Expectancy at Birth: Male data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.World Bank: Health Statistics. Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.; ; (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2017 Revision. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (5) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database, and (6) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme.; Weighted average;

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School life expectancy, secondary, female (years) in United States was reported at 5.9254 years in 2018, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. United States - School life expectancy, secondary, female (years) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on November of 2025.

State of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza) PS: Life Expectancy at Birth: Total data was reported at 73.473 Year in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 73.299 Year for 2015. State of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza) PS: Life Expectancy at Birth: Total data is updated yearly, averaging 71.277 Year from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2016, with 27 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 73.473 Year in 2016 and a record low of 68.084 Year in 1990. State of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza) PS: Life Expectancy at Birth: Total data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s State of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza) – Table PS.World Bank.WDI: Health Statistics. Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.; ; (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2017 Revision, or derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (5) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database, and (6) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme.; Weighted average;

Context

Life expectancy at birth is defined as the average number of years that a newborn could expect to live if he or she were to pass through life subject to the age-specific mortality rates of a given period. The years are from 1950 to 2018.

Content

For regional- and global-level data pre-1950, data from a study by Riley was used, which draws from over 700 sources to estimate life expectancy at birth from 1800 to 2001.

Riley estimated life expectancy before 1800, which he calls "the pre-health transition period". "Health transitions began in different countries in different periods, as early as the 1770s in Denmark and as late as the 1970s in some countries of sub-Saharan Africa". As such, for the sake of consistency, we have assigned the period before the health transition to the year 1770. "The life expectancy values employed are averages of estimates for the period before the beginning of the transitions for countries within that region. ... This period has presumably the weakest basis, the largest margin of error, and the simplest method of deriving an estimate."

For country-level data pre-1950, Clio Infra's dataset was used, compiled by Zijdeman and Ribeira da Silva (2015).

For country-, regional- and global-level data post-1950, data published by the United Nations Population Division was used, since they are updated every year. This is possible because Riley writes that "for 1950-2001, I have drawn life expectancy estimates chiefly from various sources provided by the United Nations, the World Bank’s World Development Indicators, and the Human Mortality Database".

For the Americas from 1950-2015, the population-weighted average of Northern America and Latin America and the Caribbean was taken, using UN Population Division estimates of population size.

Acknowledgements

Life expectancy:

Data publisher's source: https://www.lifetable.de/RileyBib.pdf Data published by: James C. Riley (2005) – Estimates of Regional and Global Life Expectancy, 1800–2001. Issue Population and Development Review. Population and Development Review. Volume 31, Issue 3, pages 537–543, September 2005., Zijdeman, Richard; Ribeira da Silva, Filipa, 2015, "Life Expectancy at Birth (Total)", http://hdl.handle.net/10622/LKYT53, IISH Dataverse, V1, and UN Population Division (2019) Link: https://datasets.socialhistory.org/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:10622/LKYT53, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2005.00083.x/epdf, https://population.un.org/wpp/Download/Standard/Population/ Dataset: https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy

GDP per capita:

Data publisher's source: The Maddison Project Database is based on the work of many researchers that have produced estimates of economic growth for individual countries. Data published by: Bolt, Jutta and Jan Luiten van Zanden (2020), “Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy. A new 2020 update”. Link: https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/releases/maddison-project-database-2020 Dataset: https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy

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The life expectancy vs GDP per capita analysis.

School life expectancy, primary, both sexes (years) in United States was reported at 6.0693 years in 2018, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. United States - School life expectancy, primary, both sexes (years) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on October of 2025.

State of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza) PS: Life Expectancy at Birth: Male data was reported at 71.603 Year in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 71.449 Year for 2015. State of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza) PS: Life Expectancy at Birth: Male data is updated yearly, averaging 69.594 Year from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2016, with 27 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 71.603 Year in 2016 and a record low of 66.548 Year in 1990. State of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza) PS: Life Expectancy at Birth: Male data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s State of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza) – Table PS.World Bank.WDI: Health Statistics. Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.; ; (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2017 Revision. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (5) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database, and (6) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme.; Weighted average;

Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in North America was reported at 79.85 years in 2021, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. North America - Life expectancy at birth, female (years) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on November of 2025.

Dataset built merging different datasets. The goal of the dataset is to be useful for data analysis.

Columns explanation: - Country: 119 countries names. The list is available here. - Year: from 2000 to 2015 (both included). Longitudinal format. - Continent: names of the different continents (6 continets: Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Oceania). Data taken from this link. - Least Developed: if the value is TRUE, the country is classified as "Least Developed", if it is FALSE, the country isn't classified as "Least Developed". Data of Least Developed countries taken from this link. - Life Expectancy: data taken from this link. - Population: data taken from this link. - CO2 emissions: data taken from this link. - Health expenditure: data taken from this link. - Electric power consumption: data taken from this link. - Forest area: data taken from this link. - GDP per capita: data taken from this link. - Individuals using the Internet: data taken from this link. - Military expenditure: data taken from this link. - People practicing open defecation: data taken from this link. - People using at least basic drinking water services: data taken from this link. - Obesity among adults: data taken from this link. - Beer consumption per capita: data taken from this link.

Columns explanation: • Country. • Year: from 2000 to 2020 • Continent: names of the different continents (6 continets: Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Oceania). • Life Expectancy • Population. • CO2 emissions. • Health expenditure. • Electric power consumption. • Forest area. • GDP per capita. • Individuals using the Internet. • Military expenditure. • People practicing open defecation. • People using at least basic drinking water services. • Obesity among adults. • Beer consumption per capita. Source for the data is https://data.worldbank.org/

State of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza) PS: Life Expectancy at Birth: Female data was reported at 75.442 Year in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 75.247 Year for 2015. State of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza) PS: Life Expectancy at Birth: Female data is updated yearly, averaging 73.028 Year from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2016, with 27 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 75.442 Year in 2016 and a record low of 69.633 Year in 1990. State of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza) PS: Life Expectancy at Birth: Female data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s State of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza) – Table PS.World Bank.WDI: Health Statistics. Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.; ; (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2017 Revision. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (5) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database, and (6) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme.; Weighted average;

Georgia GE: Life Expectancy at Birth: Total data was reported at 73.261 Year in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 73.096 Year for 2015. Georgia GE: Life Expectancy at Birth: Total data is updated yearly, averaging 70.220 Year from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2016, with 57 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 73.261 Year in 2016 and a record low of 63.651 Year in 1960. Georgia GE: Life Expectancy at Birth: Total data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Georgia – Table GE.World Bank: Health Statistics. Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.; ; (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2017 Revision, or derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (5) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database, and (6) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme.; Weighted average;

School life expectancy, tertiary, male (years) in North America was reported at 3.3618 years in 2019, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. North America - School life expectancy, tertiary, male (years) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on November of 2025.

School life expectancy, primary and secondary, gender parity index (GPI) in United States was reported at 0.99492 GPI in 2018, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. United States - School life expectancy, primary and secondary, gender parity index - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on November of 2025.