Enter your
information below to find the life expectancy for people of your age, country
and gender, as well as the proportion of your life you can on average expect to
be healthy.
How does the
calculator work?
The data
behind the calculator is from the 2016 Global Burden of Disease Study.
Life
expectancy is the number of years on average a person is expected to live based
on their age, gender and country. The Global Burden of Disease calculates life
expectancy by using a country's mortality rates across age groups.
Life
expectancy may vary for people of different ages because it is calculated as the
number of years a person is expected to live given they have already reached a
certain age. For example, a girl born in 2016 in Mexico is expected to live to
age 79, however the life expectancy of a 65-year-old woman in 2016 is 84. Her
life expectancy is higher because she has already reached 65.
The values
for life expectancy in the calculator are rounded to the nearest year after
adding the age input to the remaining life expectancy for the relevant age
group. In most cases age groups span five years, for example from ages 10 to
14.
'How much of
your remaining life will be healthy' is calculated from the number of years a
person can expect to live in good health, taking into account disability. This
is displayed as a percentage of their remaining life expectancy.
Results
assume that rates of death and disability remain constant over the remainder of
a person's life, so do not account for any expected scientific advances and
improvements in medical treatments.
Calculator
produced by Tom Calver, Nassos Stylianou, Becky Dale, Nick Triggle, Ransome
Mpini, Prina Shah, Joe Reed and Eleanor Keane.
With thanks
to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
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