A new NiceRx study ranked all 50 states based on life expectancy, and Hawaii, Washington, and Minnesota came out on top, while Mississippi, West Virginia, and Louisiana ranked at the bottom.

That’s about four years higher than the national average, which dropped for the second year in a row in 2021 to 76.4 years . . . mostly due to COVID-19.

On the flipside, Mississippi came in dead-last, with a life expectancy of 71.9, nearly 10 years less than Hawaii.

Generally, the regions with the highest life expectancy are on the East and West Coasts of the U.S., and the lowest are in the South and Midwest.

The 10 states with the highest life expectancy are:  Hawaii . . . Washington . . . Minnesota . . . California . . . Massachusetts . . . New Hampshire . . . Oregon . . . Vermont . . . Utah . . . and Connecticut.

The 10 with the lowest are:  Mississippi . . . West Virginia . . . Louisiana . . . Alabama . . . Kentucky . . . Tennessee . . . Arkansas . . . Oklahoma . . . New Mexico . . . and South Carolina.

The difference between men and women has also widened.  Now, men in America have an average life expectancy of 73.5 years, while women can expect to live until age 79.3.