Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion

Healthy life expectancy (e.g. at birth, at age 65)

Indicator name Healthy life expectancy (e.g. at birth, at age 65)
Code 4
Type (EU indicator/ NAT - national indicator) NAT
Periodicity Annual
Detailed definition Number of years that a person at birth, at 45, and at 65 is still expected to live in a healthy condition (also called disability-free life expectancy). To be interpreted jointly with life expectancy
Breakdowns Gender (the indicator is available only for men and women separately); age (at birth, at 45, at 65)
Comments/ Policy relevance Eurostat – there are two components to the calculations - mortality statistics (Eurostat's demographic database) and data on self-perceived disability Eurostat – EU-SILC)
Source Eurostat – EU-SILC
SPC portfolio section Overarching - indicators
Key dimension Health inequalities. Used in: EPSR scoreboard (secondary indicator), SPPM dashboard, JAF
Context of use Health inequalities. Used in: EPSR scoreboard (secondary indicator), SPPM dashboard, JAF

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