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A statistical guess about your exit date, refusing to read your specific cards.
means The average number of years a person is expected to live, calculated from current death rates across a population.
from Born in 17th-century mortality tables, when John Graunt counted London's plague dead and accidentally invented demography; statisticians later turned grief into actuarial math.
At birth biasHigh child mortality once dragged averages misleadingly low.
Not a deadlineIt is a population average, not your personal forecast.
Conditional shiftReaching 65 raises your expected age past it.
Insurance engineThese tables quietly price every life policy you buy.