The current Average Life Expectancy tables published by the National Center for Health Statistics is 79.9 years of age.

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On August 1st the actuaries' trade body adopted a new set of mortality tables drawing on data collected between 1999 and 2002, It forecasts yet another increase in life expectancy.

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