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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
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New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

National Vital Statistics Reports

Volume 58, Number 21 June 28, 2010

United States Life Tables, 2006 [28 June 2010]

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr58/nvsr58_21.pdf

[full-text, 40 pages]

Abstract

Objectives—This report presents complete period life tables by age, race, and sex for the United States based on age-specific death rates in 2006.

Methods—Data used to prepare the 2006 life tables are 2006 final mortality statistics, July 1, 2006 population estimates based on the 2000 decennial census, and 2006 Medicare data for ages 66–100. The 2006 life tables were estimated using a recently revised methodology first applied to the final annual U.S. life tables series with the 2005 edition (1). For comparability, all life tables for the years 2000–2004 were reestimated using the revised methodology and were published in an appendix of the United States Life Tables, 2005 report (1). These revised tables replace all previously published life tables for years 2000–2004.

Results—In 2006, the overall expectation of life at birth was 77.7 years, representing an increase of 0.3 years from life expectancy in 2005. From 2005 to 2006, life expectancy at birth increased for all groups considered. It increased for males (from 74.9 to 75.1) and females (from 79.9 to 80.2), the white (from 77.9 to 78.2) and black populations (from 72.8 to 73.2), black males (from 69.3 to 69.7) and females (from 76.1 to 76.5), and white males (from 75.4 to 75.7) and females (from 80.4 to 80.6).

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