Sentence examples for expectancies from inspiring English sources

Households, in other words, ought to have been big borrowers rather than savers since the population was generally young, life expectancies were lower than at present, and future income was expected to grow rapidly.

At the moment, the UN works out its main projection (called the medium variant) based on countries' fertility rates and life expectancies, the most important determinants of population growth.

With increasing life expectancies, people should probably work longer anyway.

The reality is much less grim; a fair number of Europeans go without hip replacements and other quality of life treatments, and some do die on waiting lists, but many of those people would have died anyway, because they have nasty diseases with life expectancies measured in months.

One reason why Russia bucks the trend towards equal life expectancies for the two sexes (women there live 12 years longer than men) is that its men have not followed their Western confrères and cut down on the cancer sticks.In Britain in the 1960s, when the habit was commonplace, men were much more likely to be smokers than women.

A mathematical model used by the team confirms that, given pygmy life expectancies, their growth and reproduction patterns have indeed been optimised by natural selection.

The black-white gap in life expectancies did not close much in California.

This is perhaps because the state's ban on smoking in enclosed public places and hefty taxes on packs of cigarettes have deterred many from lighting up, increasing life expectancies.

As average life-expectancies rise, so will the incidence of the disease.

Dr James Pickett, head of research and development at the Alzheimer's Society, said better identification of dementia by doctors accounted for the increase, as well as increasing life expectancy.

However, life expectancy at birth has increased less in the UK than the global average.