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- Reviewing progress
- List of indicators
- Indicator 50
Creating sustainable communities and a fairer world
50. Healthy life expectancy
This indicator is supported by separate wellbeing measures.
Healthy life expectancy (a) men and (b) women, 1991 to 2005
| Healthy life expectancy since: | 1990 |
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2003 |
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- Average life expectancy for men in 2005 was 76.9 years and for women 81.3 years. Since 1990 average life expectancy had increased by 4.3 years for men and by 3.1 years for women.
- In 2005 average healthy life expectancy (based on self-assessed general health from the General Household Survey) was 68.2 years for men, an increase of 2.4 years since 1990, and was 70.5 years for women, an increase of 2.4 years since 1990.
- Over the period 1990 to 2005, both life expectancy and healthy life expectancy increased. However, healthy life expectancy did not increase at the same rate as life expectancy meaning not all the extra years of life gained were healthy.
Updated: 30 July 2009