Life expectancy calculator
The Life Expectancy Calculator was developed within the International Technical Assistance Project "Support of Public Health Center of MOH of Ukraine to strengthen and build capacity of public health system for better monitoring, surveillance, response to outbreaks and disease prevention" funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that implementing by the Public Health Center of the MOH of Ukraine.
This is an up-to-date tool which will help assess your longevity. It has been developed based on scientific knowledge and research.
Our habits, eating behavior, chronic diseases and physical activity are just a few of the factors that affect life expectancy. The calculator detects these factors, demonstrates the extent to which a healthy lifestyle affects your longevity. Have you been looking for motivation to break bad habits for a long time? The calculator will show how positive changes increase life expectancy.
What is life expectancy, how is it calculated?
Life expectancy is an indicator predicted by demographic knowledge. It shows the average number of extra years that a person can live.
How accurately this indicator is calculated depends on the completeness of the country's census data and the quality of mortality statistics. The national mortality tables of most countries are published by the United Nations (UN) in its Demographic Yearbook. Such tables demonstrate the frequency of survival to each subsequent age.
An important indicator is the duration of a healthy human life, without incapacitation. To calculate it, use data on the prevalence of various diseases in the country.
Everyone affects their own life expectancy. Choosing a diet, bad or good habit, physical activity, we create conditions for additional years or vice versa – subtract a few years.
Smoking, alcohol abuse, and other bad habits have been shown to cause up to 60% of premature deaths and reduction of longevity.
Life expectancy calculators are a program that helps you calculate an individual's longevity and understand how implementing a healthy lifestyle will affect it.
Additional resources
If you are interested in the subject of calculating longevity, we can share the best examples of life expectancy calculators:
- Livingto100 – a questionnaire based on data from the New England Centenarian Study, the world’s largest study of people who have lived to 100 years.
- Blue Zones Vitality Compass – the founders of this calculator conducted a research of the best strategies for longevity: the world's places with the highest percentage of people who have lived a long life.
- John Hancock Life Expectancy Calculator – is more accurate, because it has additional questions (in particular, questions about cholesterol, blood pressure, etc.).
- Big Life – a team of researchers from Canada has created a universal calculator that will determine your longevity.