LIFE EXPECTANCY

Life Expectancy

Life Expectancy

The calculated life expectancy is 78 years. The principle of any health expectancy calculation is to separate the years lived by the population of a life table between two ages into the years lived in good health and the years lived in bad health. There are basically two methods for this (Robine, 2008).

The two indicators, years of healthy life defined as life without disability used in the United States for Healthy People 2010 and healthy life years (defined as disability-free life expectancy) used in the EU as a structural indicator, are very similar in their method of computation ...