Americans Living Longer These Days

Despite all the troubles that Americans must go through in their day to day lives they are still managing to survive and live longer than ever before in the nations history. According to the C.D.C. (Center for Disease Control) life expectancy in the U.S. rose to an all time high of 78.1 years in 2006 which is an increase of 0.3% over 2005. White males have a life expectancy now of 76 years while black males can expect to live to 70 years on average. White females live the longest at 81 years while black females reached 76.9 years. Total U.S. deaths in 2006 were 2,425,900 which was a decline of over 22,000 from the year before. The total number of Americans who died from H.I.V. in 06 was 12,045 which represents a drop of almost 5% from 2005.