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This information was used to create ‘life tables’ that showed peoples’ life expectancies in 10-year intervals between the ages of 35 and 75.
—New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2024
Complete period state life tables historically have been published once a decade as part of the decennial life table program, beginning with the set for the 1939–1941.
—Nancy Clanton, ajc, 11 Mar. 2021
The other day, a guy walks by [the pro-life table] and said get off campus and kill yourselves.
—Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2023
Arias and her colleagues calculated life expectancy using a technique called a period life table.
—Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2022
Complete period state life tables historically have been published once a decade as part of the decennial life table program, beginning with the set for the 1939–1941.
—Nancy Clanton, ajc, 11 Mar. 2021
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First Known Use
1825, in the meaning defined above
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“Life table.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life%20table. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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