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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.
By Bahar Gholipour December 8, 2014. The average life expectancy for people born in 2012 in the United States is a record high of 78.8 years, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That is a tenth of a year longer than the life expectancy for those born in 2011, the researchers said.