In 2008 the life expectancy in United States increased to 78.04 years.
That year, the life expectancy for women was 80.6 years and for men 75.6 years.United States’s position worsened with respect to the 193 countries we publish said data, dropping from the 33th in 2007 to 35th in 2008.
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 2007, when it was 77.99 years, which is the same of what happens compared to 1998, when it was 76.58 years.
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