If you’re looking to put a number to how long you will live, there are online tools you can use that try and estimate your longevity.
If that’s not for you, you can find a more general answer in a just released longevity study report out of the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics known as the National Vital Statistics Report released in August 19, 2009 on life expectancy.
Even though the data is preliminary, it can be counted as reliable and is often confirmed by final numbers.
The numbers go like this – a total of 2,423,995 people of all ages died during 2007, down from the number of deaths in 2006. The nation’s age adjusted death rate also dropped from 776.5 deaths per 100,000 in 2006, to 760.3 in 2007. Good news for the U.S., though there are large variations in life expectancy around the world.
In May 2009 a World Health Organization report titled World Health Statistics 2009 found that Japan had the highest life expectancy in the world at 83 years.
The African countries of Burkina Faso, Burundi, Mali and Nigeria had a horrendous life expectancy of just 49 years.
Most of the difference can be attributed to differences in public health, medical care and diet from place to place. Poorer nations dealing with the scourges of war, starvation and disease pay a human toll as well.
Life expectancy is a measure computed for a group of people, all born in the same year, assuming that mortality at each age stays constant going forward.
Quality of life in an area of the world also has an impact on life expectancy as does your family history and lifestyle. As you might expect, improvement over the centuries, especially during the Industrial Revolution, has impacted the infant mortality rate, though some countries still lag sadly behind.
Infant mortality is an important component in all of this. A baby born in 2007 has a life expectancy that’s 1.4 years longer than babies born just a decade earlier. The preliminary infant death rate was 6.77 deaths per 1,000 live births, unchanged since 2006.
The top three causes of infant death were birth defects, disorders related to early delivery and low birth weight, and finally the heartbreaking sudden infant death syndrome.
Our life expectancy continues to go up in the United States, increasing by 2.5 months in 2007 over 2006 levels. Based on the latest numbers life expectancy…
-For babies born in 2007: life expectancy is 77.9 years (up from 77.7 years in 2006)
- For white women born in 2007: life expectancy is 80.7 years (up from 80.6 years in 2006)
- For white men born in 2007: life expectancy is 75.8 years (up from 75.7 years in 2006)
- For black women born in 2007: life expectancy is 77 years (up from 76.5 years in 2006)
- For black men born in 2007: life expectancy is 70.2 years (up from 69.7 years in 2006)
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U.S. Life Expectancy Rising By More Than A Year Continued…
The Center for Disease Control report also lists the top fifteen causes of death, along with the change in their age-adjusted death rate since 2006. Most went down…· Heart disease: down 4.7%
· Cancer: down 1.8%
· Stroke: down 4.6%
· Chronic lower respiratory diseases (lung diseases): up 1.7%
· Accidents: down 5%
· Alzheimer’s disease: no significant change
· Diabetes: down 3.9%
· Influenza and pneumonia: down 8.4%
· Kidney disease: no significant change
· Septicemia (an infection that affects the blood and other parts of the body): unchanged
· Suicide: no significant change
· Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis: no significant change
· High blood pressure (hypertension): down 2.7%
· Parkinson’s disease: no significant change
· Homicide: down 6.5%
The CDC will publish the final life expectancy longevity study and death numbers later in 2009.
