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Re:China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data by 8note on Thursday May 31, 2018 @12:44AM (#17194015)
I'm surprised there's no measure for life expectancy, given you made it to age 20.
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Re:China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data by ldp01 on Thursday May 31, 2018 @02:18AM (#17194321)
There is!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_function

I understand this is what actuaries spend their days tabulating. (I am an engineer not an actuary but in the past I been involved in efforts to apply the same maths to asset aging. However your mileage varies massively with the quality of your data).

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