Lifespan

Life span or life expectancy was the average length of time a lifeform would live.

Species lifespans

• The Family of Blood's species had a natural lifespan of only 3 months. The Tenth Doctor prolonged their lifespans to be indefinite. (DW: The Family of Blood)
• The Silurian (and possibly Sea Devil) lifespan was 200 to 250 years. Silurian-Sea Devil hybrids had a shorter lifespan due to cellular degradation. (MA: The Scales of Injustice)
• The human lifespan was uncertain, though 80 was considered extremely frail for the 2000s. (TW: Dead Man Walking, BBCR: The Devil and Miss Carew) and (heavily surgically altered) Cassandra, five billion years later once colloquially referred to not looking over a thousand. (DW: The End of the World) Using a time store to maintain youth, the Duchess and other former Torchwood India personnel lived for at least 100 years. (BBCR: Golden Age)
  • Humans converted to pig slaves barely lasted weeks. (DW: Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks)
• The Ood had a very long, unspecified lifespan as Ood Sigma lived through 100 years and didn't show any visible signs of age. (DW: The End of Time)
• The average Ice Warrior lifespan was 300 years (NA: GodEngine), although some lived over 400 years. (NA: The Dying Days)
• The inhabitants of Anu had lifespans of almost a thousand years. (NA: Timewyrm: Genesys)
• At least one of Boekind lived slightly less than five billion years. (DW: The Long Game, Gridlock)
• The Jixen had a lifespan of 800 years. (K9TV: Regeneration)
• The Time Lords (and likely Gallifreyans) had extremely long lifespans. They lived for hundreds and even thousands of years. The oldest known Time Lord was Quences, who lived to at least 7000 years. (NA: Lungbarrow) The Doctor stated that Time Lords could life forever "barring accidents". (DW: The War Games)
• Osirians were able to live for thousands of years. (DW: Pyramids of Mars)
• Prisoner Zero's species were able to live for thousands of years, considering 12 years to be 'a pit stop'. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
• Gorgons were able to live for thousands of years and when inhabiting a human host, the host had a prolonged lifespan of 200 years. (SJA: Eye of the Gorgon)
• Vervoids could only live one year before they decayed. (DW: Terror of the Vervoids)
• The Ogri were able to live for thousands of years. (DW: The Stones of Blood)
• Force-grown clones such as Chip could only live half the lifespan of a human. (DW: New Earth)
• Peladonians were lucky to live to 50 years; most miners only lived to 40. When they joined the Galactic Federation, medical technology allowed them to live to 65 years. (NA: Legacy)
• Poodles native to the planet Dog World were able to live for over 60 years. (EDA: Mad Dogs and Englishmen)
• Ockorans were able to live for hundreds of years. (PDA: The Final Sanction)
• Lupine Wavelength Haemovariforms could live to 300 years by taking hosts. (DW: Tooth and Claw)
• Arcateenians were able to live for at least 200 years. They could also sustain a human host for that time and the host would show no signs of age even long after the end of normal Human lifespan. (TW: Greeks Bearing Gifts)
• The Beast, Abaddon, Pwccm and creatures like them were able to live for billions of years. It is even possible they had an infinite lifespan. (DW: The Satan Pit, TW: End of Days, TWN: The Twilight Streets)
• The Sycorax could live for up to 400 years. (REF: Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary)
• The Ukkans could live for millenia. (K9TV: Lost Library of Ukko)
• House implied that he lived for at least half a million years. (DW: The Doctor's Wife)
• One Dalek Emperor implemented its plans for nearly 200 years. (DW: The Long Game, The Parting of the Ways)
• The Ancient Lights waited carefully for thirteen billion years, and may have still been alive as of 2009. (SJA: Secrets of the Stars)
• The Pied Piper lived for over 700 years. (SJA: The Day of the Clown)
• The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe had a lifespan of 3,000 years. (DW: The Long Game)
• The Carrionites lived for billions of years. (DW: The Shakespeare Code)
• One Auton waited for over 1800 years, with no access to Auton-derived technology to maintain himself. (DW: The Big Bang)
• For one Sontaran, 12 years was considered a 'good life'. (DW: A Good Man Goes to War)
• The parasite possessing the human Sam Doyle halted Sam's aging, letting him live to 100, while the parasite itself lived for at least 150 million years. (BBCR: Submission)
• Max Capricorn, the near-human individual from Sto, whose lifespan was presumably prolonged by his cybernetics, ran Max Capricorn Cruiseliners for 176 years. (DW: Voyage of the Damned)
• A Time Lord mind inside a human body creates a shortened lifespan for both, quickly burning up the human body and lasting perhaps days. (DW: Doctor Who, Journey's End)

See also

• Immortality