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Some persons have proposed that the expected remaining years of life should be shown. These data have now been calculated .
It is of interest to know whether the expected remaining years of life has changed during the period of 400 years we know the years of birth and death of our ancestors. For that reason I have now done the calculation for two groups of ancestors, namely for those who were born before or after the year 1700. The number of ancestors is approximately just as many in each group. Furthermore the results for women and men are illustrated separately. The results are shown in the four graphs below. |
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SCB, the National Statistics Office of Sweden calculates every year the remaining years of life for now living persons in Sweden. The results for the year 2002 is shown here.
A summary of the results is given in the following table. |
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The expected remaining years of life have not increased for ancestors born after the year 1700 compared with the results for ancestors born in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. For men the results agree practically completely for the two periods. Women have longer expected remaining years of life than men. This is especially pronounced for younger women.
The expected remaining years of life calculated by SCB for the year 2002, however, shows that it now has increased considerably. |