The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has just published a batch of data that will keep annuity actuaries busy for months: estimates of life expectancy for U.S. census tracts.
Analysts at the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics based the report on data collected from 2010 through 2015. The report includes data from the District of Columbia, and from all states except for Maine and Wisconsin.
Mean life expectancy at birth, or LEB, in the jurisdictions included ranged from 75.4 years in Alabama up to 81.4 years in Hawaii, with a median of 78.7 years.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor's insurance editor, previously was LifeHealthPro's health insurance editor. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @Think_Allison.
