Throughout her future life expectancy of seventy-five years, it is reasonable to expect, that she will be deprived of a normal social life and that she will never find a husband and raise a family.
(The aforementioned article says a streetcar horse had an average life expectancy of four years).
He is told that he has a life expectancy of two years, but, defying the gloomy predictions of doctors and family members, Jane and Stephen marry and have children.
Chile today has the largest middle class in Latin America, estimated at sixty per cent of its population; a ninety-five-per-cent literacy rate; low infant mortality; an average life expectancy of seventy-four yeand; andecliningng poverty levels.
So to be told in 2003, at the age of 61, that she had motor neurone disease (MND), with a prognosis of decline and a life expectancy of two years, might have seemed a shattering blow.
"Instead of delivering action, the UN summit could deliver another round of high-sounding declarations, with rich countries offering more words and no action". The report says there has been some progress, which has included an increase in life expectancy of two years, child deaths being cut by 3 million a year, an extra 30 million children in school and 130 million removed from extreme poverty.
A person with advanced disease used to have a life expectancy of two years, but now patients with stage IV disease are living beyond ten or twelve years".
For example, Pakistan has a school-life expectancy of seven years (CIA 2007), which signifies that on average, a given citizen in Pakistan has attended seven years of school in his/her lifetime.
It has an average life expectancy of thirteen years.
