Editing Okfuskee County, Oklahoma (section)

==Life expectancy and health==
Of 3,142 counties in the United States in 2014, the [[Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation]] ranked Okfuskee County 2,986 in the life expectancy at birth of male residents and 3,091 in the life expectancy of female residents. Males in Okfuskee County lived an average of 70.8 years and females lived an average of 75.7 years compared to the national life expectancy of 76.7 for males and 81.5 for females.<ref name="Okfuskee County">{{cite web |title=County Profiles: Alfalfa County, Oklahoma |url=http://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/files/county_profiles/US/2015/County_Report_Okfuskee_County_Oklahoma.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/files/county_profiles/US/2015/County_Report_Okfuskee_County_Oklahoma.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live 
 |website=Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation |publisher=University of Washington |access-date=December 27, 2020}}</ref> In the 1980-2014 period, the average life expectancy in Okfuskee County for females decreased by 1.3 years while male longevity increased by 1.9 years compared to the national average for the same period of an increased life expectancy of 4.0 years for women and 6.7 years for men. Okfuskee was one of only a few counties in the United States to suffer a decline in life expectancy for women between 1980 and 2014.<ref>{{cite web |title=US Health Map |url=https://vizhub.healthdata.org/subnational/usa |website=Institute of Health Metrics and Evaulation |publisher=University of Washington |access-date=December 28, 2020}}</ref>

In 2020, the [[Robert Wood Johnson Foundation]] ranked Okfuskee country as number 73 of 77 counties in Oklahoma in "health outcomes," as measured by length and quality of life.<ref>{{cite web |title=2020 Oklahoma Report |url=https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/app/oklahoma/2020/rankings/alfalfa/county/outcomes/overall/snapshot
|website=Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |access-date=December 27, 2020}}</ref>