The county with the highest life expectancy for men also has the second highest life expectancy for women.
Life expectancy isn't the same as healthy-life expectancy how long people live with full physical and mental health.
"We have the worst male life expectancy in the country, the third worst female life expectancy in the country so we have a very poor quality of health in the surrounding community, " he said.
World-wide, from 1970 to 2010, male life expectancy at birth increased to 68 from 56, and female life expectancy at birth increased to 73 from 61, according to a study published in December by researchers mostly from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, at the University of Washington in Seattle.
In 2011, the average life expectancy of Russian males was actually 64, and Russian males last had a life expectancy of 59 or lower in 2005.
Over the two decades ended in 2010, each one-year increase in life expectancy at birth was associated with about a 10-month increase in healthy life expectancy, according to data published in the Lancet in December.
Although the average life expectancy for a 65-year old man is 85 and 88 for a woman, your life expectancy may not be average.
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In these 29 countries, life expectancy has been reduced on average by seven years: in Botswana, the world's most afflicted place, life expectancy has fallen to 47 from 61 in the late 1980s.
Instead you can receive distributions from your IRA that are part of a series of substantially equal periodic payments (not less frequently than annually) based on your life expectancy or the joint life expectancies of you and your beneficiary without having to pay the 10 percent penalty.
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Overall we will be adding more than a year every year to your own remaining life expectancy, which will represent a turning point in life extension.
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Extending life expectancy is not a benefit if the last years of life are spent in painful and undignified circumstances.
Researchers have long documented that the most educated Americans were making the biggest gains in life expectancy, but now they say mortality data show that life spans for some of the least educated Americans are actually contracting.
In the two decades since 1990, life expectancy has risen by 4.6%, but healthy life by only 3%.
Statistically, my life expectancy is about average, but the last years of my life will look different from other people as my disease progresses.
Lost life expectancy is worst in Belgium, where on average people lose 13.6 months of life, and the Netherlands, at 12.7 months.
Beyond its impact on life expectancy, obesity and being overweight correlate to innumerable serious diseases and have overwhelming effects detrimental to quality of life.
At a time when average life expectancy was 47, few lived long enough to get cancer.
And taking care of those basic needs causes a steep rise in life expectancy.
Geographically, the counties with the lowest life expectancy for women were in Appalachia and the South.
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This rapid economic progress was combined with big social advances in literacy and life expectancy.
Some experts also have suggested smokers or obese women are dragging down life expectancy.
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Life expectancy rates for men in Marin County are 81.6 years, and for women 85.1 years.
The current limit has been stuck at 65 since 1925, despite galloping advances in life expectancy.
The gap between the best and worst countries for male life expectancy is 17 years.
The European Health Report also reveals big inequalities in average life expectancy between different countries.
"Life expectancy with type-one diabetes is reduced by on average 15 years, " she said.
The life expectancy of Americans today is nearly a decade longer than it was in 1959.
Since then, life expectancy and wealth have increased dramatically, with no apparent interference from climate change.
Female pensioners at age 65 in the Somerset village have a life expectancy of 91.6 years.
For each Tube stop east from Westminster, he said, "you lose a year of life expectancy".
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