At birth, the American woman's life expectancy is now 79.1 years and a male's life expectancy is 73.1 years. The median age was up from 28 in 1970. In 1994 over 1 million Americans were imprisoned. This compares with a rate of 9.6 for 1950, 9.5 for 1970, 8.8 for 1980, but 8.2 for 1992.
Males have a higher mortality rate than females at all ages.
In 1994, the marriage rate stood at 9.1 per 1000 population, down from 10.6 in 1970. Even as the marriage rate has dropped in time, the proportion entering in divorce has increased slightly. Of these more than 12 million said they needed assistance to perform activities and were unable to attend school, work or live independently. There are about 78 million baby boomers and starting after June 1996, about 10,000 of these boomers will turn 50 years old everyday.