Life Expectancy

News and resources on current life expectancy - lets see how it changes over time

Congratulations - you've survived another year... unfortunately your risk of dying goes up another 9% next year, and every year after that - that's why at the moment you can't beat the exponential risk of death.

Resources

Life Expectancy graphs and maps - Our World in Data

Life expectancy: 120,000 numbers in just four minutes - BBC News
Fascinating data visualisation of life expectancy for 200 countries over 200 years.

Human Mortality Database - various institutions
Contains original calculations of death rates and life tables for national populations as well as the input data used in constructing those tables.

Life Expectancy Blog Posts

Under 44? Get ready to live forever!
09-Sep-2015

NICE will have to approve all one-off interventions as life expectancy increases
03-Nov-2014

Classic exponential growth in age distribution of older UK citizens
21-Oct-2014

National Geographic get it wrong - this baby will live forever
03-May-2013