How Healthy Are We?
(Data are for the U.S.)
Health status
- Life expectancy at birth for females: 80.4 years
- Life expectancy at birth for males: 75.2 years
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2005, Table 7
- Percent of persons in fair or poor health: 9.8%
- Percent of persons with a limitation in usual activities due to one or more chronic health conditions: 12%
Health risk factors
- Percent of adults who engaged in regular leisure-time physical activity: 31% (2007)
- Percent of adults who currently smoke: 20% (2007)
- Percent of adults who had 5 or more drinks in 1 day at least once in the past year: 20% (2007)
- Percent of persons 20 years and over who are overweight: 67% (2003-2006)
- Percent of persons 20 years and over with hypertension: 32% (2003-2006)
Source: Health, United States, 2008, Tables 71, 75
Vaccinations
- Percent of persons 65 years and over who had received an influenza shot during the past 12 months: 67% (2007)
- Percent of persons 65 years and over who had ever received a pneumococcal vaccination: 58% (2007)
- Percent of children 19-35 months age who had received combined series (4:3:1:3) vaccination: 77% (2006)
Source: Health, United States, 2008, Table 85
Access to health care
- Percent of persons under 65 years without health insurance coverage: 17%
- Percent of adults without a usual source of health care: 15%
Source: Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Adults: National Health Interview Survey, 2007, Table 33
Mortality
- Number of deaths: 2,448,017
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 825.9
- Infant mortality rate: 6.87 deaths per 1000 live births
- Number of deaths for leading causes of death
- Heart disease: 652,091
- Cancer: 559,312
- Stroke: 143,579
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2005, Tables C, 1
More data
- Health, United States
- Births: Final Data for 2006
- Deaths: Final Data for 2005
- Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Adults: National Health Interview Survey, 2007
- Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Children: National Health Interview Survey, 2007
- Summary Health Statistics for the U.S. Population: National Health Interview Survey, 2007
- National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
- National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
- National Hospital Discharge Survey
- Health Data Interactive
- Key Statistics from the National Survey of Family Growth (from A to Z)
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