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A little about you
We use your age and country to calculate your remaining life expectancy and lifetime projections.
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💼 Work
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Your Results
Here's where your life goes
Based on your inputs and your country's life expectancy data.
About This Calculator
About this lifetime time allocation calculator
Where Life Goes is a free lifetime time calculator that turns the way you spend an ordinary day into the way you spend a life. Most of us think about time in hours — an hour of TV here, half an hour of scrolling there — but rarely stop to ask what those hours add up to across decades. This tool does that arithmetic for you, showing how much of your life you spend sleeping, working, commuting, eating, and on social media, all the way out to your full life expectancy.
Where the data comes from
The daily averages used for comparison are drawn from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics American Time Use Survey (ATUS) and the OECD Time Use Database — the two most authoritative records of how people actually spend their days. Life expectancy figures come from the WHO Global Health Observatory and World Bank open data, updated annually. Together they let the calculator ground your personal numbers in real population data rather than guesswork.
What "lifetime time allocation" means and why it matters
Time allocation is simply how your finite hours are distributed across the things you do. Seen one day at a time, the split feels harmless. Projected across a lifetime, it becomes one of the most honest pictures of a life you can get: the hours spent sleeping over a lifetime can approach 26 years, and a years-spent-working calculation often runs to a decade or more of waking life. Seeing those totals side by side makes the trade-offs explicit — and that clarity, more than any productivity hack, is what tends to change behaviour.
A note on methodology
Your remaining life is estimated as (life expectancy − current age) × 365.25 days, and each daily habit is multiplied across that span. The lifetime totals are projections that assume your current habits stay constant — a simplification, since life changes, but a useful one for comparison. Every calculation happens entirely in your browser; no data is ever stored or sent to a server. Use the "What If?" tab to model how small, sustained adjustments compound into years over a lifetime.
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