Life expectancy is a measure of how long the average person lives in a given country, and these are the countries with the highest and lowest life expectancies.
Life expectancy considerably increased in most developed countries during the twentieth century. However, the increase in longevity is neither uniform nor random across individuals belonging to various socioeconomic groups. From an economic policy perspective, the difference in mortality by socioeconomic con...
The life expectancy of women at birth in the United States saw no significant changes in 2022 in comparison to the previous year 2021 and remained at around 80.2 years. Life expectancy at birth refers to the number of years that the average newborn can expect to live, providing that mortalit...
In subject area: Social Sciences Life expectancy refers to the average number of years a person at a certain age is expected to live based on current mortality rates. It is a key indicator of health status and can be measured at birth or at specific ages to assess survival expectations. ...
2009. “Differences in Life Expectancy and Disability Free Life Expectancy in Italy. A Challenge to Health Systems.” Social Indicators Research 92(1):1–11.BurgioA, Murianni L, Folino-Gallo P. Differences in life expectancy and disability free life expectancy in Italy. A challenge to health ...
Geographic differences do exist because Disability Free Life Expectancy is longer in Northern and in Central regions; shorter in the South. At a European level similar data can be found: on average women live longer but they have a longer time of life with disability. Conclusion In Italy women...
"Within Europe, we're seeing really high life expectancy in countries like Spain and Italy, Sweden, Norway, but some countries are falling behind their peers and that includes the UK. And then Eastern Europe has made a lot of progress since the post-Soviet mortality crisis of the 1990s, bu...
U.S. life expectancy also continues to be lower than that of dozens of other countries. It also didn’t rebound as quickly as it did in other places, including France, Italy, Spain and Sweden. Steven Woolf, a mortality researcher at Virginia Commonwealth University, said ...
Whether a healthy lifestyle helps achieve gains in life expectancy (LE) free of major non-communicable diseases and its share of total LE in Chinese adults remains unknown. We considered five low-risk lifestyle factors: never smoking or quitting for reas
and Arezzo, M. F. (2018). Estimation of the Healthy Life Expectancy in Italy Through a Simple Model Based on Mortality Rate. In Demography and Health Issues: Population Aging, Mortality and Data Analysis. Springer, Chum, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76002-5_4...