Us Life Expectancy 2024 Women. Life expectancy at birth for women in the united states dropped 0.8 years from 79.9 years in 2020 to 79.1 in 2021, while life expectancy for men dropped one full year, from 74.2 years in 2020 to 73.2 in 2021. Estimates are expressed as the expected age at death, not as years left to live.
Here we present the 2021 period life table for the social security area population, as used in the 2024 trustees report (tr). The life expectancy of men in the u.s.