Mortality in United States of America, 2023

United States of America
2023
Life expectancy: 79.3
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in United States of America was 79.3 years in 2023: 81.8 for women and 76.9 for men, a gap of 5.0 years. 2,975,658 people died; 74.9% of them were 65 or older and 0.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 85-89. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
79.3
Women
81.8
Men
76.9
Life expectancy at 65
20.0
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
5.3
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
6.2
Deaths
2,975,658
Deaths per 1,000 people
8.7
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
135
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
78
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2023's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
Deaths per 1,000 people per year in each age group. Logarithmic scale: each gridline is ten times the one below. Hover for exact values.
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AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
04.805.7981.976.9
1-40.200.2481.276.3
5-90.100.1277.372.4
10-140.110.1672.367.4
15-190.260.6367.462.5
20-240.481.2962.557.7
25-290.661.6457.653.0
30-340.911.9052.848.4
35-391.192.2348.043.9
40-441.552.7243.339.3
45-492.313.7938.634.8
50-543.535.8034.030.5
55-595.408.9929.626.3
60-647.7512.8425.322.4
65-6910.7017.5121.218.7
70-7416.8825.0117.215.2
75-7927.8839.6313.511.8
80-8448.0264.7710.28.9
85-8988.64112.927.26.3
90-94163.25197.864.94.3
95-99278.55320.793.32.9
100+444.07484.222.32.1