U.S. life expectancy was 1.5 years below the OECD average (2024)
Life expectancy at birth was 78.9 years in the United States and 80.4 across OECD members. In 2000 the U.S. was 0.2 years below. Civic Forecast calculation from the World Bank's World Development Indicators (UN Population Division estimates), 2024. OECD figures are the World Bank's weighted averages of all 38 members, the U.S. included.
Induced by API Automations for Civic Forecast from federal open data. Each finding names the datasets it was computed from. How this is calculated.