This was depressing. On the bright side I should have another 50 years to write about a topic that’s more uplifting. The graph below shows the number of years a person is expected to live given their age. The data is sourced from the actuarial life table published on the Social Security website.

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The life expectancy at a given age is the average remaining number of years expected prior to death for a person at that exact age, born on January 1, using the mortality rates for 2009 over the course of his or her remaining life.

A period life table is based on the mortality experience of a population during a relatively short period of time. Here we present the 2009 period life table for the Social Security area population. For this table, the period life expectancy at a given age is the average remaining number of years expected prior to death for a person at that exact age, born on January 1, using the mortality rates for 2009 over the course of his or her remaining life