Table 2 Cohort life table of dogs under primary veterinary care in the UK.

From: Life tables of annual life expectancy and mortality for companion dogs in the United Kingdom

Age (year) [x, x + 1)

Number of dogs died in [x, x + 1) (\({d}_{x}\))

Number of dogs living at x (\({l}_{x}\))

Probability of dogs dying in [x, x + 1) (\({\widehat{q}}_{x}\))

Mean fraction of last year of life lived by dogs died in [x, x + 1) (\({\widehat{a}}_{x}\))

Number of dog-years lived in [x, x + 1) (\({L}_{x}\))

Number of dog-years lived beyond x (\({T}_{x}\))

Life expectancy at x (\({\widehat{e}}_{x}\))

0–1

514

30,563

0.017

0.42

30,263.84

343,221.39

11.23 (11.19–11.27)

1–2

481

30,049

0.016

0.52

29,819.18

312,957.55

10.41 (10.37–10.46)

2–3

482

29,568

0.016

0.45

29,304.56

283,138.37

9.58 (9.54–9.61)

3–4

489

29,086

0.017

0.48

28,829.65

253,833.80

8.73 (8.69–8.76)

4–5

559

28,597

0.020

0.48

28,304.73

225,004.16

7.87 (7.83–7.90)

5–6

677

28,038

0.024

0.47

27,679.76

196,699.43

7.02 (6.98–7.05)

6–7

892

27,361

0.033

0.46

26,883.05

169,019.67

6.18 (6.14–6.21)

7–8

1254

26,469

0.047

0.51

25,853.71

142,136.63

5.37 (5.34–5.40)

8–9

1730

25,215

0.069

0.50

24,344.36

116,282.92

4.61 (4.58–4.64)

9–10

2265

23,485

0.096

0.49

22,333.50

91,938.56

3.91 (3.89–3.94)

10–11

2852

21,220

0.134

0.48

19,746.67

69,605.06

3.28 (3.25–3.31)

11–12

3449

18,368

0.188

0.50

16,637.57

49,858.39

2.71 (2.69–2.74)

12–13

3645

14,919

0.244

0.47

13,001.49

33,220.82

2.23 (2.20–2.25)

13–14

3785

11,274

0.336

0.48

9303.98

20,219.32

1.79 (1.77–1.82)

14–15

3126

7489

0.417

0.44

5743.64

10,915.34

1.46 (1.43–1.48)

15–16

2249

4363

0.515

0.43

3070.22

5171.70

1.19 (1.15–1.22)

16–17

1253

2114

0.593

0.39

1348.90

2101.48

0.99 (0.95–1.03)

17–18

542

861

0.630

0.38

522.78

752.58

0.87 (0.82–0.93)

18–19

218

319

0.683

0.32

170.71

229.81

0.72 (0.64–0.80)

19–20

78

101

0.772

0.33

48.41

59.09

0.59 (0.47–0.71)

20 and over

23

23

1.000

0.46

10.68

10.68

0.46 (0.26–0.70)

  1. Each column is a feature of a typical life table.