Average Life Expectancy For Women In Usa 2024. Life expectancy at birth for women in the united states dropped 0.8 years from 79.9 years in 2020 to 79.1 in 2021, while life expectancy for men dropped one full year, from 74.2 years in 2020 to 73.2 in 2021. According to the world health organization (who), the global life expectancy as of 2016 was 72.0 years, 74.2 for females and 69.8 years for men.

Estimates are expressed as the expected age at death, not as years left to live. In 2019, the average life expectancy was 78.8 years, an increase of 0.1 or 0.18% from 2018.