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Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2022 Feb 1;59(1):207–220. doi: 10.1215/00703370-9639692

Table 1.

Average lifespan of the living and its divergence from life expectancy for four model life tables. The first two life tables share a life expectancy; the second two share a variance (reported here in terms of the standard deviation) in the age at death.

Life Table Family & Gender	Life Expectancy	Standard Deviation of the Age at Death	Average Lifespan of the Living (ALL)	ALL – life expectancy divergence
UN Far East Asian, Male	60	22.14	68.17	8.17
Coale & Demeny South, Female	60	28.81	73.84	13.84
UN Latin, Female	67	25.43	76.65	9.65
Coale & Demeny North, Male	21	25.43	51.74	30.74