Skip to main content
. 2022 Dec 5;146:104581. doi: 10.1016/j.jedc.2022.104581

Table 7.

Life expectancy and deaths in 2017.

Life Deaths
Implied
expectancy Age-adj. rates Crude rates Crude numbers population
(per million) (per million)
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
Overall population 78.6 73.2 86.4 2,813,503 325,710,000
African-American 75.3 85.4 74.2 340,644 45,883,808
African-American (M) 71.9 105.0 80.5 177,332 22,025,436
African-American (W) 78.5 70.6 68.5 163,312 23,858,372
White 78.8 73.5 93.7 2,378,385 253,935,650
White (M) 76.4 86.3 96.3 1,212,488 125,870,081
White (W) 81.2 62.4 91.0 1,165,897 128,065,569

Notes: The table summarizes the life expectancy and deaths for the overall US population and for different groups based on race (African-American vs White) and gender (men vs women) in 2017.