'expectancy' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to express an anticipation or expectation about something, usually about a future event, for example: "We had a feeling of expectancy as we waited for the results of the election to be announced."
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.
Alcohol and other drugs were having a heavy impact on Indigenous life expectancy, and measures such as "dry zones", which banned alcohol in areas where people congregated to drink, were stopgap strategies that only harmed people in the long run, Wilson told Guardian Australia.
After all, it is the scientific world that creates our future – affecting life expectancy, engineering new products and developing technologies that influence work and wages.
"It's got the lowest life expectancy in our country.
Against this backdrop, probably the most significant new research to emerge during the campaign came last week in the medical journal the Lancet, where researchers from Imperial College venture that average life expectancy in England and Wales is improving much faster than official estimates.
In Glasgow, according to Scottish government statistics, the gap in life expectancy between those living in its most affluent neighbourhoods and those in its poorest is wider than anywhere else in the UK.
This deficit has a serious effect on a the welfare of a country: for every 10% increase in female literacy there is an increase of 10% in life expectancy at birth, and around 0.3% of economic growth.
So glacially has the gap been closing between Indigenous and other Australians on the important indicators – life expectancy, health outcomes, income, employment, imprisonment rates, child mortality, education – that even the sceptics of the left were willing to suspend judgment.
The study shows that life expectancy around the world as a whole rose by 6.2 years – 5.8 years for men and 6.6 years for women – in that period to an average of just under 72 years.
Simon Thompson and Peter Willeit from the University of Cambridge point out in a linked comment in the journal that the questionnaire may be appealingly simple but it reveals nothing about people's long-term life expectancy or their likely quality of life.
