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Life Expectancy

Background

Expectation of life is the average number of additional years a person could expect to live and can be calculated on either a period or a cohort basis. Period life expectancy is the average number of years a male or female would live if he or she experienced the age-specific mortality rates for that time period throughout his or her life. Cohort life expectancies are calculated using mortality rates which allow for known or projected changes in mortality in later years.

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Life Expectancy at Scotland Level

Life Expectancy at Scottish Administrative Area and Special Area Level

Healthy Life Expectancy

Life Expectancy Figures for Small Areas

Currently General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) do not calculate life expectancy figures for small areas. The lowest level of geography for which life expectancy is available is Community Health Partnership area.

In 2007, experimental abridged life tables were calculated, by GROS, for intermediate zones (see the Glossary on the Scottish Neighborhood Statistics website for a definition of intermediate geography). However, using our current methodology the confidence intervals surrounding the life expectancy figures were deemed too large for the statistics to be officially published.

This project has since been reopened and GROS may, in the future, make the data accessible.

Factsheets

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Life Expectancy within Scotland, 2004-2006 (404 Kb)

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