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English
Noun
life expectancy (countable and uncountable, plural life expectancies)
- (of a person) The amount of time one is expected to live.
- (figuratively, by extension, of an idea or an object) The amount of time something is expected to last.
Translations
the amount of time one is expected to live
- Arabic: مَأْمُول اَلْحَيَاة m (maʔmūl al-ḥayāh), مُتَوَسِّط العُمْر المُتَوَقَّع (mutawassiṭ al-ʕumr al-mutawaqqaʕ)
- Catalan: esperança de vida f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 平均壽命 / 平均寿命 (zh) (píngjūn shòumìng), 預期壽命 / 预期寿命 (yùqī shòumìng)
- Danish: forventet levealder
- Dutch: levensverwachting (nl) f
- Finnish: elinajanodote (fi), eliniänodote
- French: espérance de vie (fr) f
- German: Lebenserwartung (de) f
- Greek: προσδόκιμο ζωής n (prosdókimo zoḯs), μέσος όρος ζωής m (mésos óros zoḯs)
- Hindi: जीवन प्रत्याशा f (jīvan pratyāśā)
- Hungarian: várható élettartam, születéskor várható élettartam
- Icelandic: lífslíkur f pl
- Indonesian: angka harapan hidup
- Italian: aspettativa di vita f
- Japanese: 平均余命 (へいきんよめい, heikin yomei), 平均寿命 (へいきんじゅみょう, heikin jumyō)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Malay: jangka hayat
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: forventet levealder m
- Nynorsk: forventa levealder m
- Polish: średnia długość życia f
- Portuguese: expectativa de vida f, esperança de vida f
- Romanian: speranță de viață f
- Russian: продолжи́тельность жи́зни f (prodolžítelʹnostʹ žízni)
- Spanish: esperanza de vida f, expectativa vital f
- Swedish: förväntad livslängd c
- Turkish: yaşam beklentisi
- Vietnamese: tuổi thọ (vi)
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the amount of time something is expected to last
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