National Records of Scotland

Healthy Life Expectancy in Scotland, 2019-2021

Last update: 14 December 2022
Frequency: Annual

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In 2019-2021 healthy life expectancy at birth for females was 61.1 years and for males was 60.4 years.
Healthy life expectancy at birth fell for both males and females over the latest year.
Healthy life expectancy has been decreasing since 2015-2017 for males and since 2014-2016 for females.
Orkney Islands had the highest healthy life expectancy for both males and females.
North Lanarkshire had the lowest healthy life expectancy for males and North Ayrshire had the lowest healthy life expectancy for females.
Healthy life expectancy for males in the most deprived areas of Scotland was 26 years lower than in the least deprived areas. For females the difference was almost 25 years.
In the most deprived areas, males and females spend more than a third of their life in poor health compared to around 15% in the least deprived areas.

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