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

Measure: Life expectancy at birth: Female. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Life expectancy at birth 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: 80.2 (United States).

Washington: 80.9Idaho: 80.6Montana: 80North Dakota: 80.8Minnesota: 81.6Michigan: 79.3Ohio: 78.3Pennsylvania: 79.9New York: 82.1Vermont: 80.8New Hampshire: 81Maine: 79.6Arizona: 79.9California: 82.1New Mexico: 78.1Texas: 79.8Louisiana: 77.2Mississippi: 75.7Alabama: 77Florida: 80.7Georgia: 78.6South Carolina: 78.1North Carolina: 78.7Virginia: 79.9District of Columbia: 79.6Maryland: 80.5Delaware: 79.5New Jersey: 82Connecticut: 82.1Rhode Island: 81.8Massachusetts: 82.2Oregon: 80.4Utah: 80.9Wyoming: 79.3Nevada: 79.1Colorado: 81South Dakota: 79.5Nebraska: 80.7Kansas: 78.9Oklahoma: 76.5Iowa: 80.4Missouri: 78.1Wisconsin: 80.7Illinois: 80.3Kentucky: 76.2Arkansas: 76.6Tennessee: 76.9West Virginia: 75.1Indiana: 78.2Alaska: 78.3Hawaii: 83

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • DC 79.6 years
  • RI 81.8 years
  • DE 79.5 years
  • CT 82.1 years
  • NJ 82 years
  • MD 80.5 years
  • MA 82.2 years
  • VT 80.8 years
  • NH 81 years
  • Lowest: 75.1 to 78.1 years
  • Group 2: 78.1 to 79.5 years
  • Group 3: 79.5 to 80.4 years
  • Group 4: 80.4 to 80.9 years
  • Highest: 80.9 to 83 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.

1Hawaii83
2Massachusetts82.2
3California82.1
3Connecticut82.1
3New York82.1
6New Jersey82
7Rhode Island81.8
8Minnesota81.6
9Colorado81
9New Hampshire81
11Utah80.9
11Washington80.9
13North Dakota80.8
13Vermont80.8
15Florida80.7
15Nebraska80.7
15Wisconsin80.7
18Idaho80.6
19Maryland80.5
20Iowa80.4
20Oregon80.4
22Illinois80.3
23Montana80
24Arizona79.9
24Pennsylvania79.9
24Virginia79.9
27Texas79.8
28District of Columbia79.6
28Maine79.6
30Delaware79.5
30South Dakota79.5
32Michigan79.3
32Wyoming79.3
34Nevada79.1
35Kansas78.9
36North Carolina78.7
37Georgia78.6
38Alaska78.3
38Ohio78.3
40Indiana78.2
41Missouri78.1
41New Mexico78.1
41South Carolina78.1
44Louisiana77.2
45Alabama77
46Tennessee76.9
47Arkansas76.6
48Oklahoma76.5
49Kentucky76.2
50Mississippi75.7
51West Virginia75.1

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 life expectancy at birth: Female (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-life-expectancy-at-birth-female/

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