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Life expectancy   /laɪf ɪkspˈɛktənsi/   Listen
Life expectancy

noun
1.
An expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities.





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"Life expectancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... now released upon Omega. You will be given temporary housing at Square A-2. Be cautious and circumspect in your words and actions. Watch, listen, and learn. The law requires me to tell you that the average life expectancy on Omega is approximately ...
— The Status Civilization • Robert Sheckley
... Life expectancy at birth: The average number of years to be lived by a group of people all born in the same year, if mortality at each age remains ...
— The 1990 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... dissenting opinions filed in the case, one, prepared by Justice Harlan, stressed the abundance of medical testimony tending to show that the life expectancy of bakers was below average, that their capacity to resist diseases was low, and that they were peculiarly prone to suffer irritations of the eyes, lungs, and bronchial passages; and concluded that the very existence of ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin
... this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


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