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And, shockingly, deaths come almost 30 years earlier than the international average in a fifth of counties across the U.S. The average age to which an American male can expect to live is just over 75 and a half years, but that is quite a bit younger than their Japanese counterparts who can hope to make it to 79.
The average age at which men retire continues to rise and has now reached almost 65, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Between April and June this year the average male retirement age, for men who had worked past 50, was 64.6 years.