UTopiAH. This is Part of a series for comparing census based life expectancy and death rate tables, ranking states by how long we live, from 1960 to 2015. Included are medical conditions rating Utah’s #1 health rankings. Since 2012 state rankings are now correlated to voting in the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections, with blue states on top, and red states at the bottom. Utopia is Sir Thomas More’s (1516) perfect place to live, and with a slight variation in spelling, perfectly describes Utah.

Part Six. These are the 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990 census life expectancy rankings by state.

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For fifty years, life expectancy, was based on the census taken every ten years. States were rank ordered based on the longevity of their residents’ lives. Longevity has been the basis for 1)commercial uses, 2)health programs, 3)governmental budgets, and4) forward planning. 1)Commercial uses include a) annuity tables for retirement investments – how long the annuity will be needed to provide a life time income? and hence its cost; b) life insurance tables for payment of death benefits and when death benefits will be due, and hence the premium for the insurance; c) population growth, long term care. 2) Health programs use include age related maladies and hospitalization. 3) Governmental budgets include Medicare, Medicaid, Affordable Care Act so called Obamacare, development, public health, education, transportation, and national security. 4) Forward planning includes water resources, urban planning, social services, and family growth,.   Progress or decline in life expectancy, takes decades.   For instance noting that Utah’s life expectancy ranked 6th in 1960, Utah climbed to 2nd in 1970, back to 3rd in 1980, and topped out to 1st by 1990. It is even harder to move among ranks the larger the population in the State. California’s population is ten times Utah’s. California’s life expectancy ranked 19th in 1960 census, climbed to 14th in 1970, 18th in 1980, and dropped back to 32nd in 1990 (calculated in 2004). Sifting through hundreds of millions of records took 14 years from 1990 to 2004.

https://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0049/tab03.pdf

Table 3. Rankings of State Life Expectancy at Birth for White Males: 1960 to 1990

State* Year       1960      1970      1980     1990

State1960197019801990
North Dakota

Nebraska

Kansas

Minnesota

Iowa

1

2

3

4

5

1

7

8

3

9

2

7

10

1

4

3

11

12

2

7

Utah

Wisconsin

Connecticut

South Dakota

Idaho

6

7

8

9

10

2

6

4

5

16

3

6

8

5

12

1

6

5

4

9

Arkansas

Oklahoma

Missouri

Florida

Washington

11

12

13

14

15

32

24

25

18

17

34

41

28

19

9

40

38

34

22

8

Rhode Island

Texas

Ohio

California

Colorado

16

17

18

19

20

13

22

21

14

11

21

37

36

18

11

17

36

30

32

10

Michigan

Delaware

Indiana

New Jersey

Oregon

21

22

23

24

25

20

29

31

10

12

24

32

30

16

13

23

29

33

16

18

Massachusetts

Tennessee

New York

Illinois

Mississippi

26

27

28

29

30

15

38

19

30

45

15

40

25

29

47

14

42

37

27

48

Virginia

Kentucky

Alabama

New Hampshire

Pennsylvania

31

32

33

34

35

27

40

41

34

28

31

45

42

14

33

25

47

46

15

28

Vermont

Maryland

North Carolina

Maine

New Mexico

36

37

38

39

40

26

23

39

36

35

22

26

39

27

35

20

21

35

26

31

Georgia

Wyoming

Louisiana

West Virginia

Montana

41

42

43

44

45

44

43

42

49

37

43

38

48

49

23

41

19

45

49

13

Arizona

South Carolina

D.C.

Nevada

46

47

48

49

33

46

47

48

20

48

17

44

24

39

43

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Footnotes:
*Alaska and Hawaii are excluded from the rankings since life expectancy was not calculated in 1970 for these two states. Sources: National Center for Health Statistics, 1975. Some Trends and Comparisons of United States Life-

Table Data: 1900-1971. National Center for Health Statistics, 1985-86. State Life Tables, Alabama-Wyoming, U.S. Decennial Life Tables for 1979-81. National Center for Health Statistics, 1998. U.S. Decennial Life Tables for 1989-91, State Life Tables.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Internet Release date: September 26, 2003

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