Here is an interesting paper with life expectancy and many other statistics, from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is a U.S. govt. dept. so there should be no problem quoting from this. This is a very large pdf (10MB) so you may have to be patient. If you only have dial-up, probably forget it.

Health, United States, 2009
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus09.pdf

See Table 24 (p. 187), "Life expectancy at birth..."
Data only goes to 2006 but life expectancy at birth is steadily increasing, although flat for most groups from 2004-2005.

Also interesting is:
Table 26 (page 1 of 4). Age-adjusted death rates for selected causes of death, by sex, race, and Hispanic origin: United States, selected years 1950–2006

The rates of death from most of the diseases listed are declining. I have been reading and generally believed that rates of chronic diseases are increasing. This chart does not bear this out, but it does not show all diseases, for example it does not show those that don't generally cause death, like PN.

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