Life Expectancy from Colonial Times to Present

  • About 41 Years

    Cause of high infant mortality, that added to the average life expectancy declining the number significantly.
  • 58.1 Years

    Better prevention and control of infectious diseases in children raised life expectancy.
  • 67.6 Years

  • 70.7 Years

    At around this time the life expectancy was higher meaning that there was a larger elderly population generating concerns for social workers that impulsed retirement plans so the elderly wouldn't have to work and other programs to help aid them through no only basic necessities but also medical expenses.
  • 73.3 Years

    Life expectancy on the year I was born
  • 75.3 Years

  • 78.8

    According to Centers of Disease Control and Prevention the death rate lowered from 2018 with 723.6 deaths per 100,000 people to 715.2 in 2019.
  • 77.3 Years

    Life expectancy lowered significantly with the covid pandemic that killed people of all age groups.