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Some of these templates can be complex, and will greatly add to the loading time of a page if used many times. For example, in an article like list of Prime Ministers of Canada by time in office , the template is only used for the incumbent prime minister, and fixed numbers are used for all past prime ministers.
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The templates {{Birth year and age}} and {{Death year and age}} return a person's year of birth or death and their approximate age. The templates are useful when only the year, or year and month, of a person's birth and/or death are known, or if it is desired not to state a person's full dates of birth and death for privacy reasons.
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You can conduct experiments, and should test all major changes, in either this template's sandbox, the general template sandbox, or your user space before changing anything here. For a person whose date of birth is unknown, this template estimates the person's birth year and current age based on a given age at a certain date.
Therefore, the template {{Birth year and age|1970|6}} displays their birth year and age as: 1970 (age 54). If it is presently June 2025, we do not know whether the person has had their birthday this year yet since their day of birth is unknown. Therefore, the template displays their birth year and age as: 1970 (age 54–55).
May be year only, year and month, year month and day, expressed in natural formats: e.g.: 24 August 1953, 1955-08-25, Sunday, December 7, 1941. If parameter three is not specified, the birth date is displayed in exactly this format.
Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status; 1: 1: Insert 'B' for a birth date, leave blank for a death date. Suggested values B Auto value: String: suggested: Year of birth: 2: no description. Default Example 1942: Number: suggested: Month of birth: 3: as a ...