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According to the 2007 National Vital Statistics Reports (which can be viewed in related links), the "average age at death in the US was 86.2 years."

This is not the same as "Life Expectancy" and should not be confused.

It should be noted that it has become common for individuals on the web to quote "Life Expectancy" a statistically calculated number from "age adjusted" data as the average or median age of death for Americans and compare that to foreign county data average age at death.

This has further been confused and used in the current Health Care Debate to define Americans as having a low average death age as compared to other countries when this is far from the truth.

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