Lifespan Life span or life expectancy was the average length of time a lifeform would live . Male fertility in the Western world on an alternate Earth , according to a study done by the alternate Torchwood Institute , was linked to lifespan . ( TV : " Rise of the Cybermen " ) Short - lived species . The lifespan of someone brought back with a resurrection gauntlet seems to depend on the amount of energy in their body after the gauntlet has been destroyed . ( TV : " Dead Man Walking " ) The firebird , a creature literally made out of fire , had a lifespan of only one minute . ( TV : " Immortal Sins " ) " Photocopy " clone s of the Fourth Doctor and Leela created using the Kilbracken cloning technique had a maximum lifespan of eleven minutes . ( TV : " The Invisible Enemy " ) The Family of Blood ' s species had a natural lifespan of only three month s . The Tenth Doctor prolonged their lifespans to be indefinite . ( TV : " The Family of Blood " ) Vervoid s could only live one year before they decayed . ( TV : " Terror of the Vervoids " ) For one Sontaran , twelve years was considered a " good life " . ( TV : " A Good Man Goes to War " ) At the time of his death , Brak was known to be the longest - lived Sontaran in history , with a lifespan of over eighty years . ( AUDIO : " Old Soldiers " ) Force - grown clones such as Chip could only live half the lifespan of a human . ( TV : " New Earth " ) Peladonian s 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 . ( PROSE : " Legacy " ) Poodles native to the dogworld planet were able to live for over 60 years . ( PROSE : " Mad Dogs and Englishmen " ) Human lifespans . The human lifespan varied wildly throughout history . In 1898 , the average life expectancy was 49 years , 9 months and 5 days . 100 years later , it was 66 years , 5 months and 33 days . The life expectancy of Shanghai was always exactly the current average life expectancy of Earth . ( TV : " The Blood Line " ) There were also cases of humans having their lifespan extended artificially , such was the case of the heavily surgically altered Cassandra , who existed in the far future , and who once colloquially referred to not looking a day over two thousand . ( TV : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " Golden Age " ) Miracle Day in 2011 stretched the human lifespan indefinitely , ceasing death , but not ageing , although this was only a temporary change . ( TV : " The New World " ) Similarly , Jack Harkness was rendered effectively immortal by the Bad Wolf ; ( TV : " Utopia " ) unlike the humans during miracle day , though , he didn ' t age and healed almost instantly . Because of this , Jack and was known to have lived thousands of years ( TV : " Exit Wounds " ) and was suggested to be the Face of Boe , who had lived for billions of years . ( TV : " Last of the Time Lords " ) Humans converted to pig slave s , however , barely lasted weeks . ( TV : " Daleks in Manhattan " / " Evolution of the Daleks " ) A Time Lord mind inside a human body created a shortened lifespan for both , quickly burning up the human body and lasting perhaps days . ( TV : " Doctor Who " , " Journey ' s End " ) The Doctor and shared similar views on human life ; that humans should be " in a state of constant panic " ( TV : " The Caretaker " ) and that they were " born dying " respectively . ( TV : " Death in Heaven " ) Ollistra compared the human lifespan to that of a mayfly . ( AUDIO : " Day of the Vashta Nerada " ) Long - lived species . Centuries - long lifespans . The Ood had a very long , unspecified lifespan as Ood Sigma lived through 100 years and didn ' t show any visible signs of age . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) Max Capricorn , the humanoid individual from Sto , whose lifespan was presumably prolonged by cybernetics , ran Max Capricorn Cruiseliners for 176 years . ( TV : " Voyage of the Damned " ) Another humanoid with cybernetic implants , Nardole , was able to reach the age of at least 237 without apparent signs of ageing . ( TV : " Extremis " ) One particular Dalek implemented its plans for nearly 200 years . ( TV : " The Long Game " , " The Parting of the Ways " ) Arcateenian s 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 . ( TV : " Greeks Bearing Gifts " ) The Silurian lifespan was 200 to 250 years . Silurian - Sea Devil hybrid s had a shorter lifespan due to cellular degradation . ( PROSE : " The Scales of Injustice " ) The average Ice Warrior lifespan was 300 years , ( PROSE : " GodEngine " ) although some lived over 400 years . ( PROSE : " The Dying Days " ) Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform s could live to 300 years by taking host s . Any alteration to the lifespan of the hosts themselves was unstated . ( TV : " Tooth and Claw " ) Zyglot s lived at least 500 years , as they only mated once during that time . ( COMIC : " The Time of My Life " ) The Pied Piper lived for over 700 years . ( TV : " The Day of the Clown " ) Zygon s could live for centuries . One group of Zygons crashed in Devil ' s Punchbowl during the 12th century and remained there until the 1970s , approximately 800 years . ( TV : " Terror of the Zygons " ) The Jixen had a lifespan of 800 years . ( TV : " Regeneration " ) Ockoran s were able to live for hundreds of years . ( PROSE : " The Final Sanction " ) According to the Doradan s , the Masters of Dorada came to their world " many , many generations ago " and thousands of them were still living . ( PROSE : " The Dream Masters " ) Millennia - long lifespans . The inhabitants of Anu had lifespans of almost a thousand years . ( PROSE : " " ) The Great Vampire s ' lifespan was unstated , but the one that lay in E - Space , along with its life - extended human minions lived for at least one thousand years . ( TV : " State of Decay " ) One Dalek remained operational for four thousand centuries . ( AUDIO : " The Lights of Skaro " ) Another operated for billions of years . ( TV : " Twice Upon a Time " ) One particular Auton waited for over 1800 years , with no access to Auton - derived technology to maintain himself . ( TV : " The Big Bang " ) The Time Lord s had extremely long lifespans . One Time Lord lived to at least 7000 years . ( PROSE : " Lungbarrow " ) Professor Chronotis lived for nearly 13 , 000 years ; although he was considered extremely elderly , and had retired . ( PROSE : " Shada " ) The Second Doctor stated that Time Lords could live forever " barring accidents . " ( TV : " The War Games " ) Missy stated that since Time Lords live so long , befriending shorter - lived species was " cradle robbing . " ( TV : " World Enough and Time " ) Osiran s were able to live for thousands of years . ( TV : " Pyramids of Mars " ) Prisoner Zero ' s species were able to live for thousands of years . They considered twelve years to be " a pit stop . " ( TV : " The Eleventh Hour " ) Gorgon s were able to live for thousands of years and when inhabiting a human host ; the host had a prolonged lifespan of 200 years . ( TV : " Eye of the Gorgon " ) The Ogri were able to live for thousands of years . ( TV : " The Stones of Blood " ) The Ukkan s could live for millennia . ( TV : " Lost Library of Ukko " ) The Editor of Satellite Five stated the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe would have lived for three thousand years . The Jagrafess itself had overseen the Satellite for ninety - one years . ( TV : " The Long Game " ) Tregannan s lived for hundreds of thousands of years . ( AUDIO : " The Spectre of Lanyon Moor " ) The parasite possessing the human Sam Doyle halted Sam ' s ageing , letting him live to 100 , while the parasite itself lived for at least 150 million years . ( AUDIO : " Submission " ) House implied that he lived for at least half a million years . ( TV : " The Doctor ' s Wife " ) At least one member of Boekind lived slightly less than five billion years . ( TV : " The Long Game " , " Gridlock " ) The Carrionite s lived for billions of years . ( TV : " The Shakespeare Code " ) Divine and demonic entities were virtually immortal . The Olympian s could live for an indefinite length of time . ( COMIC : " The Life Bringer " ) The Ancient Lights waited carefully for thirteen billion years . ( TV : " Secrets of the Stars " ) The Beast , Abaddon , Pwccm and other , similar creatures were also able to live for billions of years . ( TV : " The Satan Pit " , " End of Days " , PROSE : " The Twilight Streets " )