Table 1 Life expectancy (age at death) from standard life table calculations.

Age (years)	Males					Females
	Life table	Lifetime density function			% Difference in life expectancy	Life table	Lifetime density function			% Difference in life expectancy
	Life expectancy	Life expectancy	Median age at death	Lifetime SD		Life expectancy	Life expectancy	Median age at death	Lifetime SD
5	77.00	77.63	79.68	12.56	0.82	83.75	83.70	85.41	10.39	0.05
10	77.06	77.64	79.69	12.52	0.76	83.79	83.71	85.41	10.38	0.10
15	77.11	77.67	79.69	12.45	0.72	83.83	83.71	85.41	10.37	0.14
20	77.30	77.71	79.70	12.36	0.53	83.92	83.72	85.41	10.35	0.25
25	77.54	77.77	79.72	12.24	0.30	84.00	83.73	85.41	10.31	0.32
30	77.74	77.86	79.74	12.06	0.15	84.10	83.75	85.42	10.26	0.42
35	78.00	77.99	79.78	11.83	0.01	84.23	83.78	85.43	10.19	0.53
40	78.30	78.19	79.85	11.51	0.13	84.38	83.83	85.44	10.07	0.65
45	78.72	78.49	79.97	11.09	0.30	84.58	83.92	85.47	9.89	0.77
50	79.23	78.91	80.15	10.56	0.41	84.83	84.07	85.51	9.64	0.90
55	79.95	79.51	80.46	9.90	0.56	85.16	84.31	85.60	9.28	1.00
60	80.82	80.34	80.94	9.10	0.60	85.56	84.68	85.76	8.80	1.03
65	82.00	81.48	81.69	8.16	0.64	86.09	85.25	86.04	8.15	0.97
70	83.42	82.98	82.82	7.12	0.52	86.84	86.11	86.54	7.34	0.84
75	85.23	84.91	84.46	6.00	0.37	87.84	87.34	87.39	6.37	0.57
80	87.49	87.32	86.68	4.87	0.19	89.30	89.06	88.77	5.28	0.27
85	90.33	90.23	89.54	3.79	0.11	91.45	91.34	90.83	4.15	0.12
90	93.70	93.60	92.97	2.82	0.10	94.33	94.21	93.65	3.07	0.12
95	97.74	97.41	96.90	2.01	0.34	98.05	97.66	97.17	2.12	0.40

Life expectancy (age at death), median and standard deviation (SD) from the lifetime density function, and percentage difference in life expectancy between standard life table calculations and the continuous lifetime calculation proposed. Data from Catalonia, 2001.