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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
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Context of use |
Health inequalities.
Used in: EPSR scoreboard (secondary indicator), SPPM dashboard, JAF
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