How Long Will I Live?
Life Expectancy Calculator
Life expectancy is the number of years that we expect to live based on population statistics. It depends on your current age and gender.
Actuaries compile mortality statistics and have developed age and gender-related tables that estimate life expectancy.
How Does it Work?
At birth, life expectancy is about 81 years for a male and 84 years for a female. Life expectancy increases as you get older. This is because you survived up to now, while others have not, so there is a good chance that the duration of your life will exceed this average at birth.
Estimate Your Life Expectancy
Enter your current age and gender to get an estimate of your life expectancy. Select whether you want the life expectancy for yourself only or also inlcude the combined life expectancy for you and your spouse.
Results
What are my odds?
Life expectancy are based on historical statistics adjusted for current longevity trends. These statistics form a bell curve, from which we can estimate the odds of survival (called “probability”).
- You are a male age 50.
- Your life expectancy is 82 years; thus, you will live another 32 years.
- Your odds of living until age 82 are 56%.
- Your odds of living until age 87 are 36% .
- Your odds of living until age 92 are 17% .
Odds of survival
You can look up your odds at each age in the future. Odds follow the familiar bell curve pattern. If you put your mouse over a bar, you will see the odds for a particular year. The first few years may show odds at 100%. Note that this is due to rounding: they are actually between 99.5% and just below 100%. Odds are never at 100% when it comes to life expectancy!
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