life table

noun

: mortality table

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This information was used to create ‘life tables’ that showed peoples’ life expectancies in 10-year intervals between the ages of 35 and 75. —

New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2024 Complete period state life tables historically have been published once a decade as part of the decennial life table program, beginning with the set for the 1939–1941. —

Nancy Clanton, ajc, 11 Mar. 2021 The other day, a guy walks by [the pro-life table] and said get off campus and kill yourselves. —

Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2023 Arias and her colleagues calculated life expectancy using a technique called a period life table. —

Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2022 Complete period state life tables historically have been published once a decade as part of the decennial life table program, beginning with the set for the 1939–1941. —

Nancy Clanton, ajc, 11 Mar. 2021