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Life Expectancy

"Life Expectancy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Based on known statistical data, the number of years which any person of a given age may reasonably expected to live.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Life Expectancy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Life Expectancy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 12 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2011 and 2016 and 2017
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