US Average Life Expectancy

Life expectancy as you age. There is so much to do about the relative ages of the 2 front-runners for the US presidential race, that I delved into the actual data and found that at the age of 81, overall in the US, the average life expectancy is 8.1 years, that should bring the 81 year old to an age of roughly 89 years. Using the same table, a 77 year old has an expected life expectancy of 10.3 yeas, thus an age of 87. There are obviously factors that may affect those figures, the health, weight, etc., at the age are very important. This is all statistics based on epidemiological data, so is not directly referable to an individual, but is helpful when putting age into perspective.This can be good or bad news, depending upon your current age.

These figures are from CDC, accessed today

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr71/nvsr71-01.pdf

Spreadsheet version available from:

https://ftp.cdc.gov/.../Publications/NVSR/71-01/Table01.xlsx