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Life expectancy

'Life expectancy' is a measure of how long the average person in a group will live

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“Life expectancy” is a calculation of how long the average person in a group will live. This is a calculation made over large groups of people that share similar characteristics.

Often, “life expectancy” is calculated at the country level. In Japan, the life expectancy for men is 81.5 years and for women 87.6 years, whereas in the US the figures are 73.5 and 79.3 years.

However, you can calculate it based on other characteristics. People who walk at least 8,000 steps per day have a longer life expectancy than those who walk only 4,000 steps per day, as you heard in today’s lesson.

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