OK, I used life expectancies from MJ Perry that dated back to the 1980's and almost everyone's life expectancies have gone up from that time.
It's hard to get demographically broken down life expectancies which match intl life expectancies from the exact same period.
This 2006 article quotes a study by Christopher Murray, MD, DPhil, and Majid Ezzati, PhD, of Harvard School of Public Health in Boston published in the Public Library of Science Medicine. The life expectancies are from the year 1999:
http://www.webmd.com/news/20060913/top-states-for-life-expectancy
The article says America 1, composed of about 10M Asians, has a life expectancy of nearly 85 years. That is higher than the average for Japan (82.6) and Hong Kong (82.2) for the years 2005-2010.
en.wikipedia.org
Even there the periods don't match up since the data behind the 2006 article was from 1999.
America 2, composed of mostly whites from MN, the Dakota, IA, NB, MT, had a life expectancy in 1999 of 79 years. Those folks should probably be compared to the nation's of Sweden (80.9), Norway (80.2), the UK and Germany (both 79.4).
Again there is the gap in the periods ... those states might have had a higher average life expectancy 5-11 years later. At any rate, they're in the ball park. |
