Life Expectancy Table
Pick your age. See the average number of years people that age have ahead of them — and the average age that works out to.
From the Social Security Administration’s 2019 Period Life Table, as published in the 2021 Trustees Report.
Find your row
At age 65, a woman on average:
That is the average for all women age 65 in the table — not a prediction for any one person.
See your row in the full table below ↓Please read this part
These numbers are averages across millions of people. They are not about you, personally.
Half of people live longer than the average. Half live less. The average is simply the middle of a very wide spread.
No table knows any one person’s years. This table does not know your family, your habits, or your life — and it does not try to guess. It only reports what happened, on average, to a whole population in one year.
The full table
Every age, side by side. “Years left” is the average number of additional years. “To about age” is that age plus the years left. Your row is highlighted.
| Age | Men years left |
Men to about age |
Women years left |
Women to about age |
|---|
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of the Chief Actuary — Period Life Table, 2019, as used in the 2021 Trustees Report. A period life table uses the death rates of a single year for every age.
What you leave behind
Looking at a number like this does something quiet. It turns “someday” into a stretch of years you can almost hold — years for family, for friends, for the places and people that have mattered to you.
Sooner or later, most of us start thinking less about what we have gathered, and more about what will remain. A name spoken with gratitude. A grandchild who knows your stories. A kindness that keeps moving after you are gone. That is a legacy — not a fortune, but a mark that lasts because it helped someone else.
For many people, giving becomes part of that mark. Not out of obligation, and not because anyone asked — but because it is a plain, lasting way to say what mattered. Some people choose to include a charity in those plans, alongside family — a cause close to their own lives, such as the Cardio Renal Foundation, which works for people living with kidney and heart disease.
There is no hurry in that thought, and nothing to decide today. It is simply worth letting it sit with you, while the years ahead are still yours to shape.
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