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THE NATIONAL HEALTH RECORD

America’s Dashboard.

The vital signs. The north stars. The lives behind the numbers.

PAGE REVIEWEDOct 6, 2026Each series keeps its own source date.
SubjectUnited States of America
Systems tracked8 connected areas
Indicator coverage59 / 59 series available
How to read thisNo single score. No hidden weighting.
Progress should have a destination.

Zero suicide deaths. No household without food or a safe home. Longer, healthier lives. Every chart now shows its north star—and the limits of the measure.

See the lives behind the goal ↗What else belongs on the chart? ↓
Health & wellbeing / Trend explorer

Life expectancy

Source snapshot
78.9
years
2024
North star / outcome direction

Longer, healthier lives—with narrower gaps

No fixed biological ceiling or universal lifespan is asserted. Healthy years and mortality disparities matter alongside this average.

No arbitrary numeric target. This indicator is context for the outcome.
+0.5 years vs 2023
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2014 – 2024 · annualFitted axis · gaps not filled
View chart data 11 observations
Life expectancy — years
Reporting periodValue
202478.9
202378.4
202277.4
202176.3
202077.0
201978.8
201878.6
201778.5
201678.5
201578.7
201478.8
Human stakes, without invented numbers

This signal matters, but there is no verified conversion here from its change to deaths avoided or suffering relieved. That needs matched population data and evidence about the intervention.

The national chart / open to improvement

Vital signs

59 indicators across 8 systems · a north star for every chart

Change uses each series’ previous observation—not a common time window. Rising does not always mean improving.

Broad coverage. Honest gaps.

What a healthy America needs.

59 charts are a starting record—not “every meaningful measure.” National averages do not show who is being left behind. Missing measures are named below, not filled with invented data.

Preventable death & distress6 selected measures

Suicide deaths ↗Drug overdose deaths ↗Adults with serious suicidal thoughts ↗Adults reporting a suicide attempt ↗Homicide deaths ↗Road-traffic deaths (FARS) ↗

Still needed

Age-specific years of life lost, veteran and state mortality, loneliness, disability-adjusted life years, treatment access, and validated intervention effects.

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Housing, food & financial security7 selected measures

Poverty estimate (SAIPE) ↗Real median household income ↗Household food insecurity ↗Very low household food security ↗People experiencing homelessness ↗Cost-burdened renter households ↗People uninsured all year ↗

Still needed

Rent-burden history, eviction, household debt stress, medical debt, wealth by demographic group, and the Supplemental Poverty Measure. Homeownership is not housing affordability.

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Opportunity & learning6 selected measures

Prime-age employment ↗Youth outside work, education & training ↗Upper-secondary education attainment ↗Bachelor’s degree or higher ↗Fourth graders below NAEP Basic reading ↗Internet use ↗

Still needed

Reading history, numeracy, adult literacy, school attendance, mobility, broadband affordability, and disability access. A degree is not a learning assessment.

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Health & care8 selected measures

Life expectancy ↗Infant mortality ↗Maternal mortality ↗Premature chronic-disease mortality ↗Diabetes prevalence ↗Current tobacco use ↗Childhood DPT immunization ↗Childhood stunting ↗

Still needed

Healthy life expectancy, care waiting times, avoidable hospitalizations, chronic pain, and morbidity disparities. Spending is not quality.

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Environment & resilience7 selected measures

Fine-particle air pollution ↗CO₂ emissions per person ↗Safely managed drinking water ↗Safely managed sanitation ↗Forest coverage ↗Renewable energy share ↗Renewable electricity share ↗

Still needed

All greenhouse gases, biodiversity, heat deaths, disaster losses, contaminated sites, grid reliability, and local exposure hotspots.

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Institutions & civic health5 selected measures

Reported presidential voter turnout ↗Federal debt ↗Federal budget balance ↗Federal receipts ↗Federal outlays ↗

Still needed

Service delivery, procurement performance, public trust, civil rights, incarceration, participation between elections, and independently substantiated corruption. Spending is not fraud.

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Not all conditions are measured annually, and not all good outcomes have a defensible numeric target. Next priorities: demographic and state breakdowns, actual learning outcomes, affordability, healthy years, and public-service results. The linked official dashboards already provide additional coverage.

Open chart. Open methods.

A country is more
than its averages.

This is a public-interest statistical dashboard, not a clinical diagnosis, official government product, or complete measure of national wellbeing.

Download all observations & north stars ↓Download definitions, goals & provenance (JSON) ↗Public-resource desk & attribution ↗
01 / Provenance

Follow every number home.

Agency statistics through FRED and World Bank are joined by reviewed CDC mortality, USDA food-security, HUD housing, Census insurance and turnout, NHTSA traffic, and SAMHSA survey records. Source dates, definitions and limitations stay with each measure. No expert or clinical review is claimed.

02 / Time & revisions

A snapshot, not a live feed.

The original 31 series were retrieved Oct 4, 2026; the additional 28 were checked 2026-10-06. Reporting periods vary. Every record keeps its retrieval date; a new page date does not make old observations current. Monthly series older than 120 days, quarterly older than 240 days, and annual older than 3 years are flagged from the start of their period.

03 / Goals & comparisons

Direction is not prediction.

US House’s north stars are proposed aspirations, not adopted government targets. External benchmarks name their publisher and definition. Numeric references are shown with dashed lines in the same units; contextual measures have no arbitrary quota. Axes include the reference where plotted. “End of 2019” uses the last observation in that year. Missing periods are not interpolated; a lone point is not a trend.

04 / Impact & uncertainty

People, not a made-up score.

Death scenarios use verified counts—not age-adjusted rates multiplied by population. Life-years depend on your explicit assumption. Hardship stays in its natural units, such as households or adults. Populations overlap and are not added. A completed checklist is not evidence of lives saved: interventions need evaluated effects and real results. See what is still missing.

From the signal to the source

Keep following the evidence.

Read each indicator’s full evidence record ↗Build a source-linked evidence brief ↗Explore federal spending ↗Open the public resource desk ↗Discuss a solution ↗