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(37,051 posts)That's the average for somebody born now, accounting for incidence of old age diseases, car crashes, homicides, suicides, childhood illnesses, drug overdoses ... Them's the odds without taking into account anything else but the newborn and all the risks.
There's also life expectancy given your current age (I've seen it called 'expectancy of life' to avoid confusion with 'life expectancy at birth', but that's apparently not the usual term).
I'm 66. Regardless of the life expectancy for somebody born in 1959, the New York State tables say I have--on average--15 years left to live. That's 81. Another table, from census.gov, for the cohort of males born from 1959-61 say life expectancy is 66.94 (specifically for Maryland). The difference? I survived this long, I'm treated by different medical practices, I've survived all the crap that could have killed me off so far--and my SES is built in, whether great, meh, or crappy health care access.
The NYS table gives a 79-year-old man an additional 7.78 years--on average. So 86, pushing towards 87. Because having lived that long, he's missed all kinds of things that could have killed him by now--with all the same hedges. And his life expectancy at birth would have, I'm guessing, been lower than mine. 1944 instead of 1959, more or less.
Elementary stats--and this is just averages.
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