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life ex·pectan·cy

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. life expectancynoun

    an expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities

Wiktionary

  1. life expectancynoun

    The amount of time one is expected to live.

  2. life expectancynoun

    The amount of time something is expected to last.

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  1. life expectancy

    Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time a person, organism, or living thing is expected to live, based on the year or their age of their birth, their current age, and other demographic factors including gender. It is often used in the context of human populations, but can also apply to animals and plants. Life expectancy may be influenced by factors such as genetics, health care, living conditions, lifestyle, and more.

Wikidata

  1. Life expectancy

    Life expectancy is the expected number of years of life remaining at a given age. It is denoted by, which means the average number of subsequent years of life for someone now aged, according to a particular mortality experience. Because life expectancy is an average, a particular person may well die many years before or many years after their "expected" survival. The term "maximum life span" has a quite different meaning. The "median life span" is also a different concept although fairly similar to life expectancy numerically in most developed countries. A 2013 study found a pronounced relationship between economic inequality and life expectancy. The term that is known as life expectancy is most often used in the context of human populations, but is also used in plant or animal ecology; it is calculated by the analysis of life tables. The term life expectancy may also be used in the context of manufactured objects although the related term shelf life is used for consumer products and the terms "mean time to breakdown" and "mean time before failures" are used in engineering.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Life Expectancy

    A figure representing the number of years, based on known statistics, to which any person of a given age may reasonably expect to live.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of life expectancy in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of life expectancy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of life expectancy in a Sentence

  1. George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty:

    The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.

  2. Valerie Amos:

    Today, a Syrian's life expectancy is estimated to be 20 years less that when the conflict started, unemployment is around 58 percent, up from around 10 percent in 2010; nearly two-thirds of all Syrians are now estimated to be living in extreme poverty.

  3. Douglas Owens:

    The people who would be most likely to benefit are people who have not been screened before, people who are healthy enough to undergo treatment for colorectal cancer and people who don't have other conditions that would limit their life expectancy substantially.

  4. Martin McKee:

    I wasn't surprised by these findings, we've been publishing for several years reports, warning that life expectancy has been stagnating since 2015.

  5. Naho Morisaki:

    This may also affect Japanese life expectancy.


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