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life expectancy

[′līf ik′spek·tən·sē]

(biology)

The expected number of years that an organism will live based on statistical probability.

(engineering)

The predicted useful service life of an item of equipment.

life expectancy

the number of years the average member of a social group can expect to live. This is largely determined by environmental factors, though improvements in these do not lead to an infinitely extendable life expectancy, since the maximum period of existence of a member of the human species remains at about 110 years and biological factors impose limits less than this for most humans. The average life expectancy at birth in the UK in the late 20th-century was for men 71, and for women 76, and this has changed little in the last half century However, there is variation according to social class and region. Currently these demographic differences are widening, with life expectancy in the north of England and Scotland being significantly less than that in the south. See also BLACK REPORT, DEATH RATE AND MORTALITY RATE.

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Between 2011-13 and 2012-14 male life expectancy in England rose from 79.41 to 79.55.

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The most rapid increases in male life expectancy at birth over the last two decades were in London (7.0 years), the North East (6.0 years) and the North West (5.8 years), while the East (5.4 years) and South West (5.3 years) experienced the slowest increase.

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Deaths before 50 account for about two-thirds of the difference in male life expectancy between the United States and other developed countries and about one-third of the difference in female life expectancy, the report found.

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Male life expectancy has increased to 77.6 years, narrowing the gap with female life expectancy at 81.8 years.

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So could this be suggesting that, as we saw in the paper presented tonight that education has a strong relation with life expectancy, male life expectancy is going to get increasingly closer to that of females?

The impact of changes in educational attainment on life expectancy in Ireland

The Assembly Government statistics show men in Ceredigion can expect to live to an average age of 80.4 - while their counterparts in Merthyr Tydfil have an average lifespan of just 74.6, nearly three years below the average male life expectancy in Wales.

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Typically, the wife inherits these problems because female life expectancy is higher than male life expectancy. But, one cannot predict who will die first, so a first-to-die policy makes sense.

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(1) In the country with the Longest male Life expectancy, men Live--years Longer than men in the country with the shortest Life expectancy.

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Spearhead status describes the 30% of PCTs that map on to the local authority areas in the bottom fifth nationally for three or more of the following factors: male life expectancy at birth, female life expectancy at birth, cancer mortality in the under 75s, and cardiovascular disease mortality in the under 75s.

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Male life expectancy has fallen to just 60, and an estimated 30,000 people die from alcohol poisoning each year.

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We considered other life expectancy terms, including the male-weighted, male life expectancy at age 65, and the male-weighted, female life expectancy, among others, but we did not include them for several reasons.