At 65, women can expect to live 11.8 years without disability, that is to say without being limited in the activities of daily life, and men 10.2 years, according to a study by Drees published on Friday.
In France, life expectancy at birth is increasing regularly, even if it was affected by the Covid-19 epidemic and has not yet returned to its 2019 value, before the epidemic, underlines the Department of Studies and Statistics of Social Ministers.
But these additional years of life are not all necessarily lived in good healthadds the Drees, which therefore publishes each year an indicator measuring the expectancy of a healthy life.
This disability-free life expectancy at age 65 has increased since 2008 by one year and 9 months for women, and by one year and six months for men, details the DREES.
In 2021, the most recent year for which these data are available for all European countries, France was ranked fourth in the European Union 27 for life expectancy without disability for men aged 65, with a level at – above the European average (+1 year and 10 months).
For women, France is in third place, also above the European average (+2 years and 8 months).
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