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 Life expectancy at 65 years (Years)
Characteristic Description
Name Life expectancy at 65 years (Years) by Sex; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Demographic indicators
First available period 1970
Last available period 2004
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (Portugal)
  • Sex
Concepts
  • SEX:  Biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.
  • RESIDENT POPULATION:  The persons who regardless of the fact that at the moment of observation ' 0:00 a.m. of the reference day ' are present or absent in a given housing unit, this unit being where they live during most of the year with their family, or where they have all or most of their belongings.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • LIFE EXPECTANCY AT CERTAIN AGES:  The mean number of years still to be lived by a person who have reached a certain exact age, if subjected throughout the rest of his life to the current age specific probabilities of dying.
Formule Life expectancy is calculated using abridged life tables with reference period of two consecutive years, into force till 2007.
Measure unit (symbol) Year (Year)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 25/02/2008


information presented in 1/11/2025