By Leada Gore
Alabama has one of the lowest life expectancies in the country, but, as with other states, women here live longer than men.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, the average life expectancy for people in Alabama is 75.2 years, ranking ahead of only West Virginia (74.5 years) Mississippi (74.4 years) as the lowest in the country. The average woman in Alabama lives until 78.2 years; the average man lives 72.2 years.
The data is from 2019, so doesn’t include the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Here are the average life expectancies in each U.S. state and District of Columbia, ranked from highest to lowest:
- Hawaii – 80.9
- California – 80.9
- New York – 80.7
- Minnesota – 80.4
- Massachusetts – 80.4
- Connecticut – 80.3
- New Jersey – 80.1
- Washington – 80
- Colorado – 80
- Vermont – 79.8
- Utah – 79.7
- Oregon – 79.6
- Idaho – 79.5
- Rhode Island – 79.5
- New Hampshire – 79.4
- Wisconsin – 79.3
- Nebraska – 79.2
- Virginia – 79.1
- Florida – 79
- Iowa – 79
- Illinois – 79
- Arizona – 78.8
- North Dakota – 78.8
- Texas – 78.6
- Maryland – 78.5
- Montana – 78.4
- South Dakota – 78.4
- Pennsylvania – 78.3
- Maine – 78.3
- Kansas – 78.2
- Delaware – 78.1
- District of Columbia – 78
- Nevada – 78
- Michigan – 78
- Alaska – 77.7
- Wyoming – 77.7
- North Carolina – 77.6
- Georgia – 77.4
- Indiana – 77
- Missouri – 76.9
- New Mexico – 76.9
- Ohio – 76.9
- South Carolina – 76.8
- Louisiana – 75.7
- Oklahoma – 75.7
- Arkansas – 75.7
- Tennessee – 75.6
- Kentucky – 75.5
- Alabama – 75.2
- West Virginia – 74.5
- Mississippi – 74.4