Life tables
Life expectancy by age
Life expectancy at birth is the figure everyone quotes, and it is the wrong one to apply to yourself. Once you have survived to 40, 60 or 80, your expected age at death is higher — sometimes substantially.
Conditional life expectancy, briefly
Life expectancy at birth averages over everyone, including those who die young. Having already survived to your current age removes that early mortality from your own average, so your expected age at death rises.
The effect is small in early adulthood — under a year — and grows steadily, reaching several years by the eighth decade.
Approximate survivorship adjustment used in the model
The model adds roughly 0.5 years at age 20, 1 year at 40, 1.6 at 50, 2.7 at 60, 4.8 at 70 and 8.4 at 80, interpolated between those points and applied on top of the country and sex baseline.
Why it matters for planning
It means later-life changes are not futile. Someone at 65 still has a substantial number of years in play, and the association between activity, diet and sleep and healthy years does not disappear with age.
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Calculate My TrajectoryFigures on this page are population-level statistics from WHO, Eurostat, OECD and national statistical agencies. They describe populations, not individuals, and nothing here is medical advice or a diagnosis.