Healthy Life Expectancy Calculator
From your current age and sex, estimate the years remaining until Japan's representative healthy life expectancy and average life expectancy. A prompt to think about the years you can live in good health.
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Based on your current age and sex, this shows an estimate of the years remaining until Japan's representative healthy life expectancy and average life expectancy. Results are reference values only, as individual differences are large.
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Years left until the healthy life expectancy (representative value)
32.7yrs
Male, age 40 estimate (remaining)
Average life expectancy (representative)
81.1 yrs
Healthy life expectancy (representative)
72.7 yrs
Years left to average life expectancy
About 41.1 yrs left
Years left to healthy life expectancy
About 32.7 yrs left
Average unhealthy period
About 8.4 yrs
How it works
- Enter your age and sex to estimate the years remaining until healthy life expectancy and average life expectancy, based on Japan's representative values. The headline figure is the years left to healthy life expectancy, shown alongside average life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, and years left to average life expectancy.
- Healthy life expectancy is the representative value for the period of life without limitations in daily activities, while average life expectancy is the representative value of life expectancy at age 0. This tool uses the following Japanese representative values: men = average life expectancy 81.05 years, healthy life expectancy 72.68 years; women = average life expectancy 87.09 years, healthy life expectancy 75.38 years.
- Years remaining are calculated as 'representative value − current age'. If your age is higher than the representative value, the result is shown as time 'past', indicating how many years have elapsed beyond it.
- The average unhealthy period is found as 'average life expectancy − healthy life expectancy', and can be used as a rough guide to the period during which nursing care or support is more likely to be needed.
- The representative values used here are one example of figures published in national surveys and statistics; the numbers change depending on the survey year and calculation method. Actual lifespan varies greatly from person to person depending on lifestyle, medical history, environment, and other factors, so please treat the results as rough estimates only.
- This tool provides only a rough guide based on general estimation formulas and representative values; it is not a diagnosis or medical treatment. Always consult a physician for health-related decisions.
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