Life expectancy is falling but men are in better health
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Women’s healthy life expectancy at birth in the UK has decreased by three months since 2009-2011, while healthy life expectancy for men rose by five months.
Asim Butt, senior research officer at the Office for National Statistics, said: “Overall, across the UK, females can expect to live a greater number of years in poor health than males, partly because female healthy life expectancy has slightly fallen while male healthy life expectancy has increased.
“At birth, males in the UK can expect to live 16.5 years with a disability and females 20.9 years. However, it is important to note that periods of illhealth may not be experienced during the same point in a person’s life, and the majority of years lived with disability for most occur post-retirement.
“For example, a person may be seriously unwell but recover and remain healthy for a long period before becoming unwell again.”