Life expectancy at birth in years by race and geographic area
| 1970–79 | 1980–89 | 1990–99 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corridor | Louisiana | USA | Corridor | Louisiana | USA | Corridor | Louisiana | USA | |
| *Data point from 1975. | |||||||||
| †Data point from 1985 | |||||||||
| ‡Data point from 1995. | |||||||||
| §Life expectancy for US black males. | |||||||||
| ¶Life expectancy for US black females. | |||||||||
| White males | 69.3 | 67.8 | 69.3 | 71.9 | 70.5 | 71.7 | 73.7 | 72.0 | 73.6 |
| White females | 77.6 | 76.4 | 77.1 | 78.9 | 78.2 | 78.9 | 79.5 | 78.8 | 79.8 |
| Non-white males | 62.4 | 62.1 | 62.4*§ | 65.4 | 64.9 | 65.0†§ | 65.1 | 65.1 | 65.2‡§ |
| Non-white females | 70.6 | 70.5 | 71.3*¶ | 73.0 | 73.2 | 73.4†¶ | 73.8 | 74.0 | 73.9‡¶ |