{"id":833,"date":"2009-12-09T17:57:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T21:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=833"},"modified":"2025-02-03T18:55:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T18:55:52","slug":"a-holiday-present-for-everyone-life-expectancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2009\/12\/09\/833\/","title":{"rendered":"A holiday present for everyone &#8211; life expectancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">What gift did every American get this year? Well, for one thing, everyone now has a longer life expectancy. Of course, it&#8217;s not a one size fits all &#8211; there are still differences among the races and sexes, as shown in the bullets below. Everyone&#8217;s life expectancy has increased, however, regardless of where he or she started a year before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Life expectancy from birth&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Everyone &#8211; 77.7 years in 2006; <strong>77.9 <\/strong>years in 2007<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">White Female &#8211; 80.6 years in 2006; <strong>80.7<\/strong> years in 2007<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Black Female &#8211; 76.5 years in 2006; <strong>77.0<\/strong> years in 2007<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">White Male &#8211; 75.7 years in 2006; <strong>75.8<\/strong> years in 2007<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Black Male &#8211; 69.7 years in 2006; <strong>70.2<\/strong> years in 2007<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">For more information, visit the <a title=\"Life Expectancy Faststat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/lifexpec.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">life expectancy page<\/a> at NCHS.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What gift did every American get this year? Well, for one thing, everyone now has a longer life expectancy. Of course, it&#8217;s not a one size fits all &#8211; there are still differences among the races and sexes, as shown in the bullets below. Everyone&#8217;s life expectancy has increased, however, regardless of where he or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,63656,63685,53751],"tags":[11541],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833"}],"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=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7725,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/7725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}