Life Expectancy and Energy Consumption: Countries and U.S. States

Life Expectancy and Energy Use: Countries and U.S. States
(All data are from the year 2006.)

Country / State	Life expectancy at birth (years)	Energy use (kg of oil equivalent per capita)
Japan	82.32	4,503
Switzerland	81.51	4,301
Iceland	81.17	14,329
Hawaii	81.13	6,547
Italy	81.08	3,496
Australia	81.04	6,977
Spain	80.80	4,061
Sweden	80.77	6,193
Minnesota	80.62	8,908
France	80.56	4,554
Canada	80.36	10,765
Norway	80.33	10,351
Israel	80.30	3,113
Singapore	80.14	12,014
New Zealand	79.99	5,323
New York	79.95	5,148
Utah	79.89	7,678
California	79.86	5,854
Massachusetts	79.86	5,793
Austria	79.84	4,717
Connecticut	79.81	6,118
New Hampshire	79.75	6,015
Netherlands	79.70	6,322
Colorado	79.69	7,550
Washington	79.64	8,119
Vermont	79.58	6,645
Iowa	79.53	10,236
Belgium	79.48	6,680
Greece	79.41	3,506
North Dakota	79.40	16,231
Ireland	79.39	4,369
Nebraska	79.31	9,420
Cyprus	79.29	3,897
Wisconsin	79.27	8,223
New Jersey	79.23	7,575
Finland	79.23	6,369
Rhode Island	79.19	5,133
Luxembourg	79.18	10,688
Florida	79.17	6,433
United Kingdom	79.14	4,075
Germany	79.13	4,473
United Arab Emirates	79.07	14,556
South Dakota	79.06	8,691
Idaho	79.03	8,860
South Korea	78.97	4,873
Arizona	78.95	6,257
Oregon	78.72	7,590
Costa Rica	78.66	1,098
Maine	78.55	8,774
Malta	78.55	2,621
Portugal	78.38	2,576
Illinois	78.38	7,782
Virginia	78.37	8,394
United States	78.30	8,431
Chile	78.29	1,956
Montana	78.20	11,420
Texas	78.18	12,643
Alaska	78.15	28,027
Denmark	78.10	4,065
Kansas	78.08	9,609
Cuba	78.04	884
Delaware	77.99	8,883
New Mexico	77.98	8,865
Maryland	77.94	6,534
Pennsylvania	77.85	7,991
Michigan	77.82	7,479
Slovenia	77.67	4,055
Kuwait	77.60	11,839
Ohio	77.33	8,558
Wyoming	77.30	23,635
Brunei Darussalam	77.13	12,150
Indiana	77.06	11,443
North Carolina	77.04	7,555
Missouri	77.00	8,258
Nevada	76.98	7,751
Georgia	76.78	8,487
Barbados	76.66	1,902
Czech Republic	76.48	4,450
South Carolina	76.35	9,939
Albania	76.34	865
Belize	76.00	1,413
Arkansas	75.88	10,266
Croatia	75.88	2,321
Kentucky	75.82	11,811
Tennessee	75.81	9,596
Uruguay	75.73	979
Oklahoma	75.67	11,292
Oman	75.51	4,464
Panama	75.40	1,785
West Virginia	75.33	11,554
Poland	75.14	2,521
District of Columbia	75.14	7,557
Argentina	75.03	1,990
Bosnia and Herzegovina	74.87	1,417
Ecuador	74.83	782
Alabama	74.82	11,751
Louisiana	74.72	22,581
Mexico	74.47	1,725
St. Lucia	74.39	811
Mississippi	74.32	10,566
Slovak Republic	74.20	3,763
Malaysia	74.05	2,641
Macedonia	73.99	1,390
Libya	73.98	3,326
Tunisia	73.90	828
Syria	73.90	1,081
Vietnam	73.70	419
Venezuela	73.37	3,136
Armenia	73.15	1,705
Hungary	73.09	2,891
Bahamas	72.91	5,560
Peru	72.83	543
Bulgaria	72.61	3,061
Colombia	72.59	752
Estonia	72.57	4,414
Saudi Arabia	72.50	6,427
Nicaragua	72.48	323
Mauritius	72.43	1,115
Jamaica	72.30	1,495
Seychelles	72.22	3,921
Romania	72.18	1,896
Jordan	72.10	1,314
Dominican Republic	72.03	729
Brazil	72.01	1,291

Data Sources:

American Human Development Project. (2010). Health Care Doesn't Have to Cost an Arm and a Leg: 29 Reasons for Optimism from Comparisons between Countries and U.S. States. Retrieved from http://www.measureofamerica.org/healthcare/

Energy Information Administration. (2008). International Energy Annual 2006. Retrieved from http://www.eia.doe.gov/iea/

Energy Information Administration. (2009). Annual Energy Review 2008. Retrieved from http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/overview.html (Table 1.6 State-Level Energy Consumption, Expenditures, and Prices, 2006)

Conversion Factor (Source: http://www.iea.org/stats/unit.asp)
1 Million Btu = 25.1995796 kg of oil equivalent