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  2. Life Begins at Forty - Wikipedia

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    Life Begins at Forty is a 1932 American self-help book by Walter B. Pitkin. Written during a time of rapid increase in life expectancy (at the time of its publication American life expectancy at birth was around 60 and climbing fast, from being only at age 40 fifty years before), [ 1 ] it was very popular and influential.

  3. Life expectancy - Wikipedia

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    Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age. The most commonly used measure is life expectancy at birth (LEB, or in demographic notation e 0, where e x denotes the average life remaining at age x). This can be defined in two ways.

  4. List of countries by life expectancy - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Longevity - Wikipedia

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    Longevity may refer to especially long-lived members of a population, whereas life expectancy is defined statistically as the average number of years remaining at a given age. For example, a population's life expectancy at birth is the same as the average age at death for all people born in the same year (in the case of cohorts).

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

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    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 ...

  7. Ageing - Wikipedia

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    Life expectancy at birth is over 80 now in 33 countries. Ageing is a "global phenomenon", that is occurring fastest in developing countries, including those with large youth populations, and poses social and economic challenges to the work which can be overcome with "the right set of policies to equip individuals, families and societies to ...

  8. List of countries by past life expectancy - Wikipedia

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    Life expectancy by world region, from 1770 to 2018. This is a list of countries showing past life expectancy, ranging from 1950 to 2015 in five-year periods, as estimated by the 2017 revision of the World Population Prospects database by the United Nations Population Division. Life expectancy equals the average number of years a person born in ...

  9. List of countries in the Americas by life expectancy - Wikipedia

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    Life expectancy for population in general Life expectancy for male Life expectancy for female Sex gap Population (thous.) at birth bonus 0→15 at 15 bonus 15→65 at 65 bonus 65→80 at 80 at birth at 15 at 65 at 80 at birth at 15 at 65 at 80 at birth at 15 at 65 at 80 Saint Barthélemy: 84.29: 0.58: 69.87: 1.84: 21.71: 3.70: 10.41: 81.46: 67. ...