US Life Expectancy Rises
June 11, 2008
National Center for Health Statistics has reported that the average life expectancy in the US has reached 78.1 years. Life expectancy for women, at 80.7 years, continued to be higher than that for men at 75.4 years. The data was compiled by looking at 95 percent of the death certificates across the country for 2006 and represents the life expectancy of children born that year, if mortality rates stay the same.