Hawaii and Oklahoma

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Want to live longer? Statistically speaking, live in Hawaii.

And if you can’t live there, live in California, New York, Minnesota, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Washington, Colorado, New Jersey and Rhode Island.

That’s the order of the top 10 states, ranked by life expectancy, according to new data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (.pdf) on Thursday. 

The bottom 10 states, ranked 41 to 50: Missouri, South Carolina, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, and Mississippi, followed by West Virginia in last place.

Obviously, this is statistical data, not strictly causative — meaning, I’m not sure you’d automatically add years to your life by moving to Hawaii or lose some by moving to West Virginia. By and large however, your neighbors would be older.

Still, I felt okay sharing this, since it’s based on government data and “annual complete period life tables,” as opposed to some media company’s subjective guesstimate.

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