enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Life expectancy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy

    Life expectancy at birth in years Notes Paleolithic: 22–33 [19] With modern hunter-gatherer populations' estimated average life expectancy at birth of 33 years, life expectancy for the 60% reaching age 15 averages 39 remaining years. [20] Neolithic: 20 [21] –33 [22] Based on Early Neolithic data, life expectancy at age 15 would be 28–33 ...

  3. List of countries by life expectancy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life...

    This is especially true for Healthy life expectancy, the definition of which criteria may change over time, even within a country. For example, Canada is a country with a fairly high overall life expectancy at 81.63 years; however, this number decreases to 75.5 years for Indigenous people in the country. [4]

  4. List of U.S. states and territories by life expectancy

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and...

    The life expectancy in some states has fallen in recent years; for example, Maine's life expectancy in 2010 was 79.1 years, and in 2018 it was 78.7 years. The Washington Post noted in November 2018 that overall life expectancy in the United States was declining although in 2018 life expectancy had a slight increase of 0.1 and bringing it to ...

  5. Disability-adjusted life year - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability-adjusted_life_year

    63,250–70,000. 70,000–80,000. More than 80,000. Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) are a measure of overall disease burden, expressed as the number of years lost due to ill-health, disability, or early death. It was developed in the 1990s as a way of comparing the overall health and life expectancy of different countries.

  6. LGBT life expectancy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_life_expectancy

    The life expectancy of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people is a subject of research. Early research by the Cameron group purporting to find a significantly shorter life expectancy among homosexuals is not considered reliable, although it has been widely misused and cited. [1][2][3][4] During the AIDS crisis, a loss in average ...

  7. Years of potential life lost - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_potential_life_lost

    Years of potential life lost. Years of potential life lost (YPLL) or potential years of life lost (PYLL) is an estimate of the average years a person would have lived if they had not died prematurely. [1] It is, therefore, a measure of premature mortality. As an alternative to death rates, it is a method that gives more weight to deaths that ...

  8. Longevity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity

    For example, an 1871 census in the UK (the first of its kind, but personal data from other censuses dates back to 1841 and numerical data back to 1801) found the average male life expectancy as being 44, but if infant mortality is subtracted, males who lived to adulthood averaged 75 years. The present life expectancy in the UK is 77 years for ...

  9. Life table - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_table

    Life table. In actuarial science and demography, a life table (also called a mortality table or actuarial table) is a table which shows, for each age, the probability that a person of that age will die before their next birthday ("probability of death "). In other words, it represents the survivorship of people from a certain population. [1]