{"id":5541,"date":"2021-03-11T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T18:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5541"},"modified":"2021-03-11T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T18:29:08","slug":"u-s-state-life-tables-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/03\/11\/5541\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. State Life Tables, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr70\/nvsr70-1-508.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5543\" style=\"border:1px solid #000000\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/nvsr70_1_cover.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a>New NCHS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr70\/nvsr70-1-508.pdf\">report<\/a> presents complete period life tables for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia by sex based on age-specific death rates in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, Hawaii had the highest life expectancy at birth, 81.0 years in 2018, and West Virginia had the lowest, 74.4 years.<\/li>\n<li>Life expectancy at age 65 ranged from 17.5 years in Kentucky to 21.1 years in Hawaii.<\/li>\n<li>Life expectancy at birth was higher for females in all states and the District of Columbia.<\/li>\n<li>The difference in life expectancy between females and males ranged from 3.8 years in Utah to 6.2 years in New Mexico.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New NCHS report presents complete period life tables for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia by sex based on age-specific death rates in 2018. Key Findings: Among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, Hawaii had the highest life expectancy at birth, 81.0 years in 2018, and West Virginia had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63656,47317,63768,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}