>Asian women in the U.S. have the highest life expectancy, at about 86, Hispanic women can expect to live until about age 83 and White women until age 80, according to the data.
>Black women have a notably shorter life expectancy, at about 76 and a half years, while Alaska Native and American Indian women have a life expectancy of about 71.
Guns alone reduce women’s life expectancy in America relative to other high income countries; throw in vehicular accidents and obesity and the gap only gets bigger.
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Skill issue.
>Asian women in the U.S. have the highest life expectancy, at about 86, Hispanic women can expect to live until about age 83 and White women until age 80, according to the data.
>Black women have a notably shorter life expectancy, at about 76 and a half years, while Alaska Native and American Indian women have a life expectancy of about 71.
Kind of surprised hispanic women are a full 3 years higher than white women. I assumed life expectancy would follow income. Looking at the [brief](https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2024/aug/health-care-women-how-us-compares-internationally) hispanic women fall behind white women in pretty much every metric they’re tracking so I’m not sure what could be causing the gap.
Guns alone reduce women’s life expectancy in America relative to other high income countries; throw in vehicular accidents and obesity and the gap only gets bigger.