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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.
Life expectancy at birth by race and sex, United StatesCDC/NCHS, National Vital Statistics System. In 2009, the average life expectancy of black men and women in the United States was just 75. That's roughly the same as the average life expectancy of white men and women in 1979 â 30 years earlier. The average life expectancy of black men in 2009 was just 71 (compared to 76 for white men). While such a significant gap is troubling, the 2009 black/white life expectancy gap was actually at an all-time low of 4 years. In 1950, that gap was almost twice as large.