Healthy Life Expectancy in Scotland, 2019-2021
Healthy Life Expectancy in Scotland, 2019-2021
Last update: 14 December 2022
Frequency: Annual
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Key Findings
- In 2019-2021 healthy life expectancy at birth for females was 61.1 years and for males was 60.4 years.
- Healthy life expectancy at birth fell for both males and females over the latest year.
- Healthy life expectancy has been decreasing since 2015-2017 for males and since 2014-2016 for females.
- Orkney Islands had the highest healthy life expectancy for both males and females.
- North Lanarkshire had the lowest healthy life expectancy for males and North Ayrshire had the lowest healthy life expectancy for females.
- Healthy life expectancy for males in the most deprived areas of Scotland was 26 years lower than in the least deprived areas. For females the difference was almost 25 years.
- In the most deprived areas, males and females spend more than a third of their life in poor health compared to around 15% in the least deprived areas.
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