People are living longer. Improved working conditions, reduced smoking rates and improved healthcare have all contributed to increasing life expectancy from generation to generation.

Use our interactive calculator to find out average life expectancy and the likelihood of living to be aged 100 years for someone of your age and sex, given assumed future mortality improvements.

This is average cohort life expectancy which does not consider other factors that may affect life expectancy such as lifestyle or health conditions.

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State Pension ages are approximate. Please refer to the State Pension age timetable for your actual State Pension age.

Last updated: 14 February 2025.

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    Life expectancy (eₓ), probability of dying (qₓ) and number of persons surviving (lₓ) from the period and cohort life tables, using past and projected mortality data from the 2022-based national population projections (NPPs), for the UK and constituent countries.

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