What is in this file
One row per state, plus DC and Puerto Rico where available. The rank universe is 50 states; reference rows have an empty rank. The file is sorted by descending value with reference jurisdictions after the states.
- Period
- 2022
- Release
- 2025-12-04
- Updated
- 2026-10-23
- Producer
- CDC National Center for Health Statistics
- Source
- U.S. State Life Tables, 2022 · NVSR 74-12, tables 1 and 4
- Units
- Years
- Cadence
- Annual, about three years after the data year
Quick validation snapshot
Hawaii has the highest estimate (80.0 years); West Virginia has the lowest (72.2 years). The U.S. benchmark is 77.5 years. These are useful checks when importing the CSV into a spreadsheet. Reference jurisdictions may lie outside the 50-state range, so exclude rows marked reference when reproducing the default state ranks.
Margins are 90% intervals calculated as 1.645 × the NCHS standard error. They reflect random variation in the number of deaths only. Preserve them when reshaping the data; an empty cell and a numeric zero have different meanings.
Calculation and reproducibility
Published life expectancy at age 0 (ex) from each state’s table 1; 90% MOE = 1.645 × the standard error in table 4. The U.S. value, 77.5 years, is from Table A of the same report.
Immutable edition 2026-10-23 CSV · Full edition registry, including available histories
Column definitions
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rank | 1 + the number of states with a higher source value; empty for reference rows. |
| jurisdiction | State name or labeled reference jurisdiction. |
| value | Numeric estimate, using the source’s available precision. |
| unit | Years |
| moe_90 | Published 90% margin of error in the same units; empty when not published. |
| reference | True if excluded from the default 50-state ranking. |
| period | Reference period of the observation. |
| release | Date of the source release. |
| source | Producer and table/file identifier. |
| source_url | Producer file or source documentation; microdata rows link to the specific state input ZIP. |
Limits and reuse
A summary of 2022 death rates, not a forecast for anyone alive today. It reflects deaths from all causes, including accidents, overdoses and COVID-19, which was still a leading cause of death in 2022.
This is an independent arrangement of federal statistical data. Cite the named producer for the original observations and Rank the States for computed ranks. Downloading or embedding does not imply government endorsement. Source files are archived with a checksum for reproducibility.
SHA-256 of the concatenated SHA-256 hashes of each state’s table 1 and table 4 workbook, in state order. SHA-256: 2e840e1359d1ea42834bda2a75b68ed29c840bc4a0ee51ef5fe6fd472626288e
Citation
Rank the States. Life expectancy, 2022. Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. State Life Tables, 2022, NVSR 74-12, tables 1 and 4; released 2025-12-04. Edition 2026-10-23. https://rankthestates.com/data/editions/2026-10-23/life-expectancy.csv