LIFE expectancy in Scotland is falling and the number of people dying over the past six months has been 10 per cent higher than average. Between 1981 and 2011, males in Scotland added more than seven years to their life expectancy; females, more than five. Between 2012 and 2019, male and female life expectancy at birth increased by just 146 days - or an extra three weeks per year. By 2020, life expectancy for males in Scotland - at 76.1 - was actually lower than it had been a decade earlier. Between 2009 and 2019, Ireland added three years to male life expectancy at birth, continuing the trends of the previous 20 years (Ireland added 6.1 years males life expectancy between 1989 and 2009).

Source: The Herald October 01, 2022 05:37 UTC