Expectancy in a sentence as a noun

If life expectancy is going up by 7 years, that means that a pension needs to provide income for more years.

You cannot take life expectancy at birth as a model for how healthy adults are.

But I bet he'd give anything to have the good health and indeterminate life expectancy that we have tonight.

Your life expectancy even in a "primitive" culture has always been 60 years or so, give or take a dozen, once you survive childhood.

There are plenty of old people in most poor countries but if 10+% of the population dies before age 5 the average life expectancy get's far shorter.

But as life expectancy goes up, so do the numbers with disability, and the longer someone is alive, the more money they are likely to have.

Because I'm a nerd, I'm compelled to make an orthogonal point:Life expectancy is not entirely medical and is not a particularly good way to compare countries.

"According to a 2004 study, the average life expectancy of a non-instrument-rated pilot who flies into clouds or instrument conditions is 178 seconds.

The Republican-invented meme of social security insolvency because it didn't account for life expectancy increases is tired and worn out.

Not to detract from the insight but:Until very recently life expectancy at birth hovered between 20 and 35 years, but in the past century it has risen to 67 yearsMost of this increase has been due to a precipitous crash in infant mortality, rather than a soaring increase in the median life expectancy.

Expectancy definitions

noun

an expectation

See also: anticipation

noun

something expected (as on the basis of a norm); "each of them had their own anticipations"; "an indicator of expectancy in development"

See also: anticipation