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United States Life Expectancy Disparities Among Ten Americas by Sex and Age Group 2000-2021

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General Info
Provider 
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Geography 
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
01/2000 - 12/2021
Data type
Estimate:
  • Subnationally representative
Summary 

Life expectancy estimates were produced in the United States between 2000-2021, for 10 mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive Americas defined based on race and ethnicity, geographical location, metropolitan status, income and Black-White residential segregation, by sex, age group and year. These estimates were generated using population and deaths data from the National Center for Health Statistics.

This dataset includes the following:

  • Estimates of life expectancy for each sex, age group, year and America
  • Assignments of the Ten Americas classification for each combination of county and race and ethnicity
  • Code used to generate the estimates