Life expectancy continues to increase in France, according to figures published by INSEE. That of men reached 80 years for the first time.
Life expectancy is still increasing in France according to the latest figures published by INSEE and reached “for the first time, 80 years for men”. Women still have a longer life expectancy than men, but the gap is narrowing. In France, as in the European Union, one in five people is 65 or over. Statistics.
What is the definition of life expectancy?
THE term “hope” does not refer to hope, but to its statistical significance, the mathematical expectation, that is to say the expected value. According to INSEE,life expectancy at birth corresponds to the average lifespan of a fictitious generation (imaginary, editor’s note) subjected, at each age, to mortality conditions of a given year. Life expectancy at birth is one of the health status indicators most frequently used.
What is life expectancy in France?
According to figures published by INSEE, as of January 1, 2024, life expectancy of French people born in 2023 is from 85.7 years for women and of 80 years for men. Compared to 2022, it is in increase 0.6 years for women and 0.7 years for men. “Life expectancy reflects the mortality conditions of the year; it had a strong fell in 2020, due to the health crisis (Covid-19), and remained below its 2019 level for the following two years. In 2023it reaches a level higher than its pre-pandemic level” underlines INSEE. Note that thelife expectancy at birth increases less quickly for women than for menthus reducing the gap between the two sexes. It is now 5.7 years.
Life expectancy in France is more than two years higher than the average of the 27 countries of the European Union (78 years for men and 83.4 for women, all European countries combined). She is also higher than the estimated global life expectancy of 73.3 years according to the WHO. THE Japan, Switzerland and Spain rank at the top countries with the highest life expectancy at birth according to INED. The life expectancy of women in Japan reaches 87.8 years.
What is the life expectancy of men in France?
The life expectancy of men born in France is 80 years old.
What is the life expectancy of women in France?
The life expectancy of women born in France is 85.7 years old.
Life expectancy is calculated using mortality tables. These tables contain for a given period (year X) mortality quotients, that is to say the frequency of deaths at agefor example 100,000 individuals– in order toget the number of survivors at each age.
► Example: if the risk of dying before the first birthday is 5 in 1000, there will be 500 deaths within one year. We must then apply to (100,000 individuals -500 deaths) or 99,500 survivors at 1 year, the risk of dying between 1 and 2 years and so on for each age.
The life expectancy figure will then correspond to theaverage age at death of this fictitious generation of 100,000 individuals subjected throughout their lives to mortality observed in the year of their birth. The calculation can then be done at any age of life: 10 years, 60 years, 80 years… to estimate the average number of years remaining to live under the age-specific mortality conditions of the year considered. . L’life expectancy is not a forecast, but a synthetic indicator of mortality in a given year.
Age pyramid: 1 person in 10 is 75 years or older in France
At 1er January 2024, in France, 21.5% of residents are 65 years or older. This proportion has been increasing for more than 30 years and the aging of the population is accelerating since the mid-2010s. Thus, people aged 75 years old or more represent one in ten people in France (10.4%). This situation is common to all EU27 countries. In 2022, people aged 65 or over represent 21.1% of the EU27 population. Their part is above 23% in Italy, Portugal and Finland (in 2022).
How many deaths per year in France?
The number of deaths has “significantly” decreased in 2023 but remains higher than before the Covid-19 health crisis. In 2023, 631,000 people died in Franceeither 6.5% less than in 2022 (-44,000 deaths in figures). This decline follows three years of high mortality, due in particular to the Covid-19 epidemic. With the arrival of large baby boom generations at ages of high mortality, the number of deaths tend to increase faster over the last ten years. The rate of infant mortality in 2023 st 4 deaths per 1,000 births alive. After falling very sharply during the twentieth century, this rate has not fallen since 2005.
Sources: Demographic report 2023. Insee. January 16, 2024 / Ined.
