How long will you live?

[wellinghall]

This is a sort-of poll, but I don't have the skills / account to set one up properly.

How long do you think a man aged 65, and a woman aged 60, can expect to live? - based on current estimates of UK mortality rates.

I'd be interested in the sorts of answers I get, and in what the data tell me.

(Feel free to ignore if this is just too boring for words!)

Comments

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

I would guess (not having looked at other answers) that the man can expect to live fifteen more years, and the woman maybe twenty-five or thirty more. I've never done anything actuarial but I have done a decent bit of demographic history, so consider myself decently aware of these things

(Prepares to get it hideously wrong.)

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

So, what's the right answer then?