life expectancy

English

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Noun

life expectancy (countable and uncountable, plural life expectancies)

1. (of a person or other living being) The amount of time one is expected to live.
   • 2024 June 25, Issy Ronald, “Kevin, world’s tallest male dog, dies shortly after securing record”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Great Danes have relatively short life expectancies compared to smaller dogs, living for an average of 8-10 years, and males are typically about 2.5 feet (0.76 meters) tall, according to the American Kennel Club.

   • 2024 December 19, Deidre McPhillips, “US life expectancy has rebounded closer to pre-pandemic levels”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     People born in 2023 are now estimated to live 78.4 years, according to the CDC. That’s still shy of the 78.8-year life expectancy from 2019, but it’s a significant improvement driven by lower death rates in each of the 10 leading causes of death.

2. (figuratively, by extension, of an idea or an object) The amount of time something is expected to last.

Translations

the amount of time one is expected to live

• Arabic: مَأْمُول اَلْحَيَاة m (maʔmūl al-ḥayāh), مُتَوَسِّط العُمْر المُتَوَقَّع (mutawassiṭ al-ʕumr al-mutawaqqaʕ)
• Catalan: esperança de vida f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平均壽命 / 平均寿命 (zh) (píngjūn shòumìng), 預期壽命 / 预期寿命 (yùqī shòumìng)

• Danish: forventet levealder
• Dutch: levensverwachting (nl) f
• Finnish: elinajanodote (fi), eliniänodote
• French: espérance de vie (fr) f
• German: Lebenserwartung (de) f
• Greek: προσδόκιμο ζωής n (prosdókimo zoḯs), μέσος όρος ζωής m (mésos óros zoḯs)
• Hindi: जीवन प्रत्याशा f (jīvan pratyāśā)
• Hungarian: várható élettartam, születéskor várható élettartam
• Icelandic: lífslíkur f pl
• Indonesian: angka harapan hidup
• Italian: aspettativa di vita f
• Japanese: 平均余命 (へいきんよめい, heikin yomei), 平均寿命 (へいきんじゅみょう, heikin jumyō)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: jangka hayat
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forventet levealder m

  Nynorsk: forventa levealder m

• Polish: średnia długość życia f
• Portuguese: expectativa de vida f, esperança de vida f
• Romanian: speranță de viață f
• Russian: продолжи́тельность жи́зни f (prodolžítelʹnostʹ žízni)
• Spanish: esperanza de vida f, expectativa vital f
• Swedish: förväntad livslängd c
• Turkish: yaşam beklentisi
• Vietnamese: tuổi thọ (vi)

the amount of time something is expected to last

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 預期壽命 / 预期寿命 (yùqī shòumìng)

• Finnish: odotettu kesto
• Malay: jangka hayat
• Polish: żywotność (pl) f
• Spanish: esperanza de vida f, expectativa vital f

See also

• afterlifetime