Life expectancy

[wellinghall]

Country with the highest life expectancy: Macau, 84.4 years
United Kingdom: 79.0 years
USA: 78.1 years
Country with the lowest life expectancy: Swaziland, 31.9 years
Source of these, and figures for all 224 countries, is https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html

UK male life expectancy: 77.2 years
UK female life expectancy: 81.5 years
Source of these, and other figures, is http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?ID=168

A reasonably intelligent life expectancy calculator
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/lifestyle/calculators/life-expectancy.html
I get to 80

Comments

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

I only make 64.5 ... and that doesn't take into account my diabetes.

Not bad, as I was told as a child it would be 50, and that I would be unable to work beyond 40.

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

Make that 72.5 ... doing it for ExMemSec (78) showed me I had a couple of things wrong!

20 years left

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

75, and I don't have diabetes - but with the change in taxation of private pensions I think I will need to work 'til past 75 to get the pension I would otherwise have had at 65...

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Not drinking enough?

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

All being well 78.5, but I wasn't working with full info on the grandparents so its a bit -ish.

Better than 43 and better than 46!

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

92. As my assumption is that I should equal my grandmothers late 80s, that seems reasonable. But they certainly didn't grill all their food!

Ed. I've just realised it didn't ask sex, which seems a flaw.

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

It did; there was a drop-down list at the top.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

I always avoid these things. I think it falls into the "Really don't want to know, even in jest" box for me... Interested to hear what other people find though!

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

It's interesting as a statistical exercise and I am not one for saying "so and so lived to 101, smoked and drank like a fish and only ate chips, thus so will I", but it doesn't reeaally work like that does it? After all, my dear mother would come out at at least 83 (possibly more, don't know much about my great-grandparents) and we know THAT didn't happen! And surely I should be taking some off for a higher cancer risk now, but the schema doesn't tell me to as she wasn't under 60 (but was still young, esp for women in her family).