improvements in diet that have resulted in greater life expectancy for many people
calculating the life expectancies of different social groups
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What to Do: Calculate your RMDs: The IRS provides a formula based on your account balance and life expectancy.—Andrew Rosen, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025 Meanwhile, patients suffer as a result, facing fragmented care, rising healthcare costs, and declining life expectancy.—Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025 Yet the papacy is also an office and advances in modern medicine and life expectancy have presented a new scenario.—Christopher Lamb, CNN, 1 Mar. 2025 Each country was chosen based on several factors, including standard of living and life expectancy, population size, number of hospitals and data availability.—David Faris, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for life expectancy
: the number of years that an individual or group of a certain age can expect to live on the average based on experience in the past for individuals or groups of the same kind
Medical Definition
life expectancy
noun
: an expected number of years of life based on statistical probability
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