life expectancy
- Guideline or reference source
- WHO Glossary
- Definition
- A statistical abstraction based on existing age-specific death rates. The average number of years an individual of age x is exptected to live if current mortality rates continue to apply.
- Narrower Term
- disability-free life expectancy
- life expectancy at birth
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