In 1997 the life expectancy in United States increased to 76.43 years.
That year, the life expectancy for women was 79.4 years and for men 73.6 years.United States’s position improvened with respect to the 193 countries we publish life expectancy, dropping from the 28th in 1996 to 27th in 1997.
If we look at the change in life expectancy in United States over the past several years, we find that it is higher than in 1996, when it was 76.03 years, which is the same of what happens compared to 1987, when it was 74.77 years.
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