Objectives To evaluate the impact of cerebrovascular disease deaths on life expectancy (LE) of Chinese residents in 2010 and its change compared with 2005, and then to find the high risk population (age, gender and region) whose deaths caused by cerebrovascular disease made the main impact on the LE Methods LE and cause-eliminated LE were calculated by standard life table techniques using the adjusted mortality data from National Disease Surveillance System: The Death Surveillance Data Sets in 2005 and 2010.