Life Expectancy
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- Created on: 19-11-17 20:04
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- Life Expectancy
- Life expectancy- how long on average a person born in any given year can expect to live. As death rates have fallen, so life expectancy has risen. For example:
- Males born in England in 1900 could expect on average to live until they were 50(57 for females)
- Males born in England in 2013 can expect to live for 90.7 years (94 for females)
- Over the past two centuries, life expectancy has increased by about 2 years every decade
- One reason for the lower average life expectancy in 1900 was the fact that so many infants and children did not survive beyond the early years of life. To put the improvement into perspective, a newborn baby today has a better chance of reaching its 65th birthday than a baby born in 1900 had of reaching its first birthday
- If the trend to greater longevity (long lifespan) continues, Harper predicts that we will soon achieve 'radical longevity', with many more centenarians (people aged over 100). Currently there are about 10,000 in the Uk: by 2100 there are projected to be about 1 million.
- Class, Gender and Regional Differences
- Despite the overall reduction in the death rate and the increased life expectancy over the past 100 years, there are still important class, gender and regional differences. For example, women generally live longer than men- although the gap has narrowed due to the changes in employment and in lifestyle (such as more women smoking)
- Similarly, those living in the North and Scotland have a lower life expectancy than those in the South, while working class men in unskilled or routine jobs are nearly 3 times as likely to die before they are 65 compared to men in managerial or professional jobs
- According to Walker, those living in the poorest areas of England die on average seven years earlier than those in the richest areas, while the average difference in disability-free life expectancy is 17 years
- Life expectancy- how long on average a person born in any given year can expect to live. As death rates have fallen, so life expectancy has risen. For example:
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