Life expectancy at age 65 reached the highest point on record for both men and women. Men aged 65 could expect to live a further 16.6 years, and women a further 19.4 years, if mortality rates remained the same as they were in 2003-2005.
Source: Interim Life Tables, United Kingdom, 1980-82 to 2003-05, Office for National Statistics (0845 601 3034)
Links: Report (Excel file) | ONS press release | BBC report
Date: 2006-Nov
Average life expectancy at birth for Scotland was 74.2 years for males and 79.2 years for females, based on data for the period 2003-2005. In the period 1993-1995 (by comparison) life expectancy had been 71.9 years for males, and 77.5 years for females.
Source: Life Expectancy for Administrative Areas within Scotland, 2003-2005, General Register Office for Scotland (0131 314 4243)
Links: Report | GROS press release
Date: 2006-Sep
A discussion paper examined a means of generating estimates of healthy and unhealthy life expectancy consistent with exogenous population mortality data.
Source: Ehsan Khoman and Martin Weale, Incidence-based Estimates of Healthy Life Expectancy for the United Kingdom: Coherence between transition probabilities and aggregate life tables, Discussion Paper 270, National Institute for Economic and Social Research (020 7654 1901)
Links: Discussion paper | Summary
Date: 2006-Apr
An article presented the latest figures on male and female health expectancy, at birth and at age 65, for the United Kingdom and its four constituent countries in 2002. On average males could expect to live in good or fairly good health for 67.1 years at birth and 12.0 years at age 65. For females, healthy life expectancy at birth was 69.9 years and 14.0 years at age 65.
Source: 'Health expectancies in the UK, 2002', Health Statistics Quarterly 29, Spring 2006, Office for National Statistics, TSO (0870 600 5522)
Links: Article
Date: 2006-Feb
An article compared estimates of healthy life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy, based on old and new methods for one year (2001). It then presented and compared health expectancies based on the new methodology across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and the entire United Kingdom in 2001.
Source: Claudia Breakwell and Madhavi Bajekal, 'Health expectancies in the UK and its constituent countries, 2001', Health Statistics Quarterly 29, Spring 2006, Office for National Statistics, TSO (0870 600 5522)
Links: Article
Date: 2006-Feb