The “healthy” life expectancy is the years that a person can expect to live without suffering from an incapacity in the actions of daily living. In France, it is 64.1 years for women and 62.7 years for men. Stable figures, which place us 5th in Europe for women and 10th for men.
“While France occupies one of the best places in terms of life expectancy at birth, it is fairly close to the European average for healthy life expectancy “, we learn in the last DREES report.
Only Spanish women can hope to live longer
Because life expectancy at birth, it continues to progress. In 2016, it reached 85.3 years for women and 79.3 years for men, which ranks us 2nd in Europe for women, just behind Spain and 10th for men.
“If the mortality conditions do not change compared to those observed in 2016, the
women can therefore now expect to live on average 6 more years than men “ underlines the DREES.
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