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How Many Good Years Are Ahead of You?

Your lifestyle, health, and family history all shape how long you'll live — and how long your savings need to last. Answer a few quick questions for a personalized life-expectancy estimate. Free, private, and nothing you enter is saved.

Life Expectancy Calculator

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How Long Could Your Retirement Last?

Answer 14 simple questions — no math, no medical records — and we'll estimate the road ahead using the same actuarial tables the Social Security Administration uses, refined by what modern research says about how you live.

As you answer, watch the landscape grow with you: every answer adds to the scenery, and your road stretches toward the golden hour.

Chapter I — About You

How old are you today?

Your age sets the starting point of the road — everything else adjusts it.

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How this estimate is calculated

The baseline. We start with the Social Security Administration's most recent Period Life Table — the same mortality data SSA's own actuaries publish — which gives the average remaining life expectancy for an American of your age and sex.

The adjustments. Your answers adjust the underlying year-by-year mortality rates (not just the final number) using relative-risk figures from large published studies, including:

  • Smoking — Jha et al., New England Journal of Medicine (2013): current smokers face roughly triple the mortality rate of never-smokers; quitting recovers most of the loss.
  • Diabetes — Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration, NEJM (2011).
  • Body mass index — Global BMI Mortality Collaboration, The Lancet (2016).
  • Exercise — Arem et al., JAMA Internal Medicine (2015).
  • Self-rated health — DeSalvo et al. meta-analysis, Journal of General Internal Medicine (2006).
  • Education, income, marital status, and parental longevity — U.S. cohort studies including NIH-AARP and Health and Retirement Study findings.

Because these risk factors overlap (education, income, and health travel together), we deliberately dampen the combined effect rather than stacking every study at full strength, and effects taper at advanced ages, consistent with the research.

The odds. "Even odds," "1-in-4," and "1-in-10" come from your adjusted survival curve — the ages where your modeled probability of still being alive crosses 50%, 25%, and 10%.

Please read: This calculator is for education and planning conversation only. It is a statistical estimate about populations, not a prediction about you, and it is not medical, legal, or financial advice. Nothing here should change a medical decision — that conversation belongs with your doctor. AMAC is not a medical provider or financial advisor.

Please read: This calculator is for education and planning conversation only. It is a statistical estimate about populations, not a prediction about you, and it is not medical, legal, or financial advice. Nothing here should change a medical decision — that conversation belongs with your doctor. AMAC is not a medical provider or financial advisor.

This estimate is for planning and educational purposes only — it is not medical or financial advice.

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About This Calculator

How accurate is a life expectancy calculator?
It's a statistical estimate, not a prediction. The starting point is the Social Security Administration's Period Life Table — the same mortality data SSA's actuaries publish — adjusted by relative-risk figures from large published studies on smoking, diabetes, weight, exercise, self-rated health, education, income, marriage, and parental longevity. The result describes people with your profile, which is exactly what a retirement plan needs; it says nothing certain about any one person.
Why does my life expectancy matter for retirement planning?
Because the biggest financial risk in retirement is living longer than your money. Most people plan to the average, but half of everyone outlives the average. Planning to the "1-in-4" age instead — the birthday one person in four with your profile reaches — is how advisors size retirement income, long-term-care coverage, and what a surviving spouse will need.
Is anything I enter saved or shared?
No. The estimate is calculated in your browser, on this page. Your answers aren't sent to AMAC or anyone else, aren't stored, and disappear when you leave. If you'd like a copy, use the print button on your results.
Where does the data come from?
The baseline is the Social Security Administration Period Life Table (2023, from the 2026 Trustees Report). The adjustments draw on peer-reviewed research including Jha et al. (New England Journal of Medicine, 2013) on smoking, the Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration (NEJM, 2011) on diabetes, the Global BMI Mortality Collaboration (The Lancet, 2016), Arem et al. (JAMA Internal Medicine, 2015) on exercise, and DeSalvo et al. (Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2006) on self-rated health. Overlapping factors are deliberately dampened rather than stacked.
Can I change my number?
Some of it, yes. On your results you can flip switches — quitting smoking, exercising a few times a week, cutting back on drinking, bringing weight down — and see how many years each adds, using the same research. The lifestyle levers are yours; the plan for the years you already have is where a RoseMark advisor can help.