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  "textContent": "Living up to 100 years old is a rare milestone achieved by a small portion of the population.\n\nIn the United States, life expectancy rose to its highest mark in history at 79 years in 2024 — but how does that number shift when it comes to life in major cities?\n\nThe estimated life expectancy at birth for Washington, D.C., was 77.4 years in 2023, according to data released by the City Health Dashboard. DC's age just about meets the average life expectancy of the analyzed cities, which is 77.3 years.\n\nHere's how DC compares to other cities:\n\n  * New York City: 82.3 years\n  * Philadelphia: 75 years\n  * Los Angeles: 79.6 years\n  * Chicago: 77.9 years\n  * Houston: 74.8 years\n\n\n\nWomen in DC will likely live longer than men on average, with a life expectancy of 80.3 years, compared to men's at 74.3 years.\n\nThe study also broke down the city's life expectancy based on rase/ ethnicity:\n\n  * Asian: 87.6 years\n  * Black: 70.1 years\n  * Hispanic: 85.8 years\n  * White: 87.4 years\n\n\n\nLife expectancy in the United States reached 79 years in 2024, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\n\nThe age is an all-time high for the country and that is thanks to the decline of the COVID-19 pandemic and decreasing death rates from all the nation’s top killers, including heart disease, cancer and drug overdoses.\n\nPreliminary statistics also suggested a continued improvement in 2025.\n\nData also suggests that the number of Americans ages 100 and older is projected to more than quadruple over the next three decades, from just 0.03% in 2024, to 0.1% in 2054.\n\nThe City Health Dashboard, a program created by the NYU Grossman School of Medicine's Department of Population Health, offers data on over 1,200 U.S. cities with populations over 50,000.\n\nTo determine life expectancy in these cities, the Dashboard analyzed the Multiple Cause of Death Data, National Vital Statistics System, and the National Center for Health Statistics from 2023 with a 3-year estimate.",
  "title": "Life expectancy in DC is just above average: report"
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