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Life expectancy The length of time that an average person is expected to live, which is used by insurance companies use to make projections of benefit payouts. Life expectancy. Your life expectancy is the age to which you can expect to live. Actuarial tables establish your official life expectancy, which insurance companies use to evaluate the risk they take in selling you life insurance or an annuity contract. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) also uses life expectancy to determine the distribution period you must use to calculate minimum required distributions from your retirement savings plans or traditional IRAs. However, your true life expectancy, based on your lifestyle, family history, and other factors, may be longer or shorter than your official life expectancy. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 5 DEATHS for every 100 million vehicle miles TOTAL 42, 643 * * FIGURE FOR 2003 LIVING LONGER Life expectancy at birth 1915 55 YEARS 1967 71 YEARS 2006 78 YEARS AN AGING NATION Percentage of population age 65 or older 1915 5% 1967 10% 2006 12% THE MILITARY Active-duty military personnel 1915 174,000 1967 3. The impact of AIDS on adult mortality since 1999 has led to a decline in life expectancy at birth in 23 African countries, according to the "2004 Report on the global AIDS epidemic", published by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). What unites these countries' techniques is that they all project "further improvements in life expectancy at birth but at a lower rate than that observed during the 1970s and 1980s" (Cruijsen and Eding 2001, 243). |
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