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years (life expectancy at birth)
verified
Staffordshire Bull Terrier: life expectancy at birth, UK veterinary clinic population
as of 2026-09-07 · license: CC-BY-4.0
- UK primary-care veterinary clinic population (VetCompass), not a census of all dogs of the breed.
- Life expectancy at birth (cohort life-table method), a different statistic from a Kaplan-Meier median survival age -- do not compare directly against McMillan 2024's figures.
Source
Springer Nature (Scientific Reports) — Teng KT, Brodbelt DC, Church DB, O'Neill DG (2022). Life tables of annual life expectancy and mortality for companion dogs in the United Kingdom. Scientific Reports 12:6415. Table 3.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10341-6
retrieved 2026-09-07
Method
Quoted verbatim from the source above.