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This statistical report details life expectancy
estimates for Scotland and comparisons
with estimates for the rest of the UK. It also
includes life expectancy estimates for
councils, health boards and other areas
within Scotland
Life Expectancy
in Scotland
2017-2019
Published on 24 September 2020
Life expectancy for females is 10.0 years more in the least deprived areas compared to the most deprived areas in Scotland. For males that difference increases to 13.3 years.
Deprivation has a big impact on life expectancy
Life expectancy at birth by deprivation (years)
Females
Males
Least deprived
Most deprived
Least deprived
Most deprived
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10.0 yearsdifference
13.3 yearsdifference
Scotland has the lowest life expectancy in western Europe.
Life expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy in Scotland has always been lower than or among the lowest in western Europe, when looking at EU data from Eurostat. Here, eastern Europe is defined as EU8 countries as well as EU2 and Croatia. Western Europe is made up of the other sixteen EU nations.
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Source: Life Expectancy in Scotland, 2017-2019www.nrscotland.gov.uk
Life Expectancy in Scotland, 2017-2019 Summary
Life expectancy remains virtually unchanged since 2012-2014
Between 2000-2002 and 2012-2014, life expectancy increased by 16.3 weeks per year for males and 9.9 weeks per year for females. But between 2012-2014 and 2017-2019, life expectancy increased by 0.8 weeks per year for males and 0.7 weeks per year for females.
Life expectancy at birth (years)
1980-1982 2017-2019
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69.1Males
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Contents
Key findings.................................................................................................................... 4
1. Introduction ............................................................................................................. 5
How national life expectancy is calculated ................................................................. 5
How sub-national life expectancy is calculated .......................................................... 5
Uses of life expectancy ................................................................................................ 5
2. Life expectancy at birth ......................................................................................... 6
3. Recent trends in life expectancy .......................................................................... 7
4. Life expectancy at older ages ............................................................................... 8
5. Scotland’s life expectancy compared internationally..................................... 10
Life expectancy in UK countries ................................................................................ 10
Life expectancy in EU countries ................................................................................ 10
6. Life expectancy and population dynamics: time to death statistics ............ 12
7. Life expectancy in council areas........................................................................ 14
8. Life expectancy in NHS health boards .............................................................. 15
9. The stall in life expectancy growth across Scotland’s council areas .......... 16
10. Life expectancy by deprivation ....................................................................... 17
11. Life expectancy in urban and rural areas ...................................................... 18
12. Links to related statistics ................................................................................. 18
13. Notes on statistical publications .................................................................... 19
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Key findings
In Scotland in 2017-2019, life expectancy at birth was 77.1 years for males
and 81.1 years for females. This is a small increase of around 0.1 years for both males and females since the 2016-2018 figures published last year.
Life expectancy in Scotland has increased since the early 1980s but has now
remained virtually unchanged since 2012-2014.
Life expectancy at age 65 in 2017-2019 was 17.7 years for males and 19.8 years for females in Scotland.
Scotland has the lowest life expectancy at birth of all UK countries. Average life expectancy in the UK was 79.4 years for males and 83.1 years for females.
Female life expectancy at birth was highest in East Renfrewshire (84.0 years) and lowest in Glasgow City (78.5 years).
Male life expectancy at birth was highest in East Dunbartonshire (80.5 years) and lowest in Glasgow City (73.6 years)
The majority of Scotland’s council areas have experienced a slow-down or a
stall in life expectancy growth since 2012-2014 and many areas now have decreasing life expectancy.
The gap in life expectancy between the most and least deprived areas was
13.3 years for males and 10.0 years for females.
Do these statistics take into account the effect of COVID-19 on life expectancy?
The life expectancy statistics in this publication cover the three year period
2017-2019, and do not include any data on deaths involving COVID-19, which was first mentioned on a Scottish death certificate in the week beginning 16 March 2020. Future statistics will be able to show some of the effects of the pandemic on life expectancy in Scotland.
The latest statistics on deaths involving COVID-19 can be found at www.nrscotland.gov.uk/covid19stats
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1. Introduction This publication summarises the life expectancy figures for Scotland for the years
2017-2019. It also includes estimates of life expectancy in different areas of Scotland How national life expectancy is calculated
The latest life expectancy figures are calculated from the mid-year population
estimates for Scotland and the number of deaths registered in Scotland during 2017, 2018 and 2019. Life expectancy for Scotland is calculated for each year of age, and represents the average number of years that someone of that age could expect to live if death rates for each age group remained constant. Life expectancy in Scotland
is calculated as a three year average, produced by combining deaths and population data for the three year period. Three years of data are needed to provide a large enough sample size to make these figures accurate and also to lessen the effect of very ‘good’ or ‘bad’ years. Throughout this publication, the latest life expectancy
figures refer to the 2017-2019 period.
How sub-national life expectancy is calculated
We calculate life expectancy for areas within Scotland using a very similar method to
the national figures but with a few key differences. Firstly, we use age groups rather than single year of age. This is to increase the sample size of each age and make sure we are calculating accurate mortality rates. Secondly, we use a maximum age group of 90+ whereas the national figures are calculated up to age 100. These are
known as ‘abridged life tables.’ You can read more information about the methods in this publication in our methodology guide on the NRS website. Uses of life expectancy
Life expectancy at birth is a very useful indicator of mortality conditions across a population at a particular point in time. It also provides an objective means of comparing trends in mortality over time, between areas of a country and with other countries. This is used to monitor and investigate health inequalities and to set public
health targets. Life expectancy is also used to inform pensions policy, research and teaching.
What is ‘period’ life expectancy?
All of the estimates presented in this report are ‘period’ life expectancy. They are calculated assuming that mortality rates for each age group in the time period (here 2017-2019) are constant throughout a person’s life. This means that future changes in things such as medicine and legislation are not taken
into consideration. While this means that period life expectancy is not an accurate prediction of how long a person will actually live, it is a useful measure of population health.
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2. Life expectancy at birth Life expectancy at birth was 77.1 years for males and 81.1 years for females in
2017-2019. This means that a baby boy born in Scotland between 2017 and 2019 could expect to live for just over 77 years while a baby girl born at the same time could expect to live until she was just over 81 years. For both males and females, there was a small change of around 0.1 years of life expectancy at birth since the
previous estimate for 2016-2018. Figure 1 shows that life expectancy in Scotland has increased over the past few decades. A boy born in 1980-1982, could have expected to live for 69.1 years while
a girl could have expected 75.3 years. This represents an increase of 8.0 years for males and 5.8 years for females. In recent years, increases in life expectancy have stalled, but Figure 1 shows that it is projected to increase to 80.6 years for males and 83.8 years for females by the year 2043.
Figure 1. Life expectancy at birth, Scotland, 1980-1982 to 2043
Source: Figures to 2017-2019 are from National Life Tables for Scotland (NRS) based on three years of data.
Figures from 2020 are projected single year l ife expectancies (2018 based, NRS)
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Source: Figures to 2017-2019 are from National Life Tables for Scotland (NRS) based on three years of data. Figures from 2019 are projected single year life expectancies (2018 based, NRS).© Crown Copyright 2020
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3. Recent trends in life expectancy
Figure 2. The slowing rate of improvement in life expectancy in Scotland. 2000-
2002 to 2017-2019
Source: National Life Tables for Scotland (NRS)
Figure 2 shows the more recent changes in life expectancy at birth in Scotland. Between the estimate in 2000-2002 and the one in 2012-2014, life expectancy increased on average 9.9 weeks a year for females and 16.3 weeks a year for
males. Between 2012-2014 and 2017-2019, however, life expectancy increased by less than one week per year for both females and males. Figure 3 shows the annual change in weeks of life expectancy at birth. While this has risen and fallen several times since 2000-2002, it has stayed close to zero in the years following 2012-2014.
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Figure 2: The slowing rate of improvement to life expectancy inScotland, 2000-2002 to 2017-2019
Between 2000-2002 and 2012-2014, life expectancy increased by 16.3 weeks per year for males and 9.9
weeks per year for females
Between 2012-2014 and 2017-2019, life expectancy increased by 0.8 weeks per year for males and 0.7 weeks per
year for females
Source: National Life Tables for Scotland (NRS)© Crown Copyright 2020
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Figure 3. Annual change in life expectancy at birth in Scotland, 2000-2002 to 2017-2019
Source: National Life Tables for Scotland (NRS)
4. Life expectancy at older ages
Between 2017-2019, a man aged 65 in Scotland could expect to live on average for another 17.7 years. A woman of the same age could expect to live 19.8 more
years. At age 85, males could expect to live for a further 5.7 years and females for a further 6.4 years. Figure 4 shows how life expectancy at older ages has changed
since 1980-1982. Men aged 65 in 2017-2019 can expect to live 5.4 years longer than they would have done in 1980-1982 and men aged 85 can expect to live 1.5
years longer. For women, those aged 65 and 85 in 2017-2019 can expect to live 3.8 years and 1.2 years longer respectively than they would have done in 1980-1982. Since 2012-2014, the rate of increase of life expectancy at age 65 and 85 has been much slower than it was prior to 2012-2014.
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Source: National Life Tables for Scotland (NRS)© Crown Copyright 2020
What is ‘life expectancy at
older ages’?
Life expectancy at older ages can be quite a confusing concept- how can a man aged 65 expect to
live 17.7 years when life expectancy at birth is 77.1 years? The best explanation for this is that life expectancy is an average
which is affected by people dying at younger ages as well as in old age. While the average number of years a baby boy might live is 77,
if he makes it to 65 without dying, then the average number of years left is 17.7.
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Figure 4. Life expectancy at older ages in Scotland. 1980-1982 and 2017-2019
Source: National Life Tables for Scotland (NRS)
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Source: National Life Tables for Scotland (NRS)© Crown Copyright 2020
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5. Scotland’s life expectancy compared internationally
Life expectancy in UK countries
Scotland has the lowest life expectancy of all UK countries for both males and females. Figure 5 shows that average life expectancy at birth in the UK was 83.1 years for females and 79.4 years for males in 2017-2019. This is higher than the Scottish figure by 1.9 years for females and 2.2 years for males. Figure 6a and
Figure 6b show how this gap between Scotland and the whole of the UK has increased since 1980-1982. It also shows that the slowing in life expectancy increase has happened in the UK as a whole. Table 1 also shows a comparison of life expectancy in the UK constituent countries at birth and at age 65.
Figure 5. Life expectancy at birth in UK constituent countries 1980-1982 to 2016-2018, males and females
Table 1. Life expectancy at birth and age 65 in UK and constituent countries, 2017-2019
at birth at age 65
Males Females Males Females
United Kingdom 79.37 83.06 18.76 21.12
England 79.67 83.33 18.91 21.30
Wales 78.51 82.33 18.31 20.68
Scotland 77.13 81.13 17.65 19.84
Northern Ireland 78.74 82.55 18.47 20.81
Source: National l ife tables (ONS)
Life expectancy in EU countries
Figure 6a and Figure 6b show life expectancy at birth in Scotland and the UK
compared with countries in the EU. In 2017-2019, life expectancy for males was highest in Italy (81.2 years) and lowest in Latvia (70.1 years). For females, life expectancy at birth was highest in Spain (86.3 years) and lowest in Bulgaria (78.6 years). The majority of European countries have experienced a slowing in the rate of
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life expectancy increase from 2012-2014 onwards and a few have effectively stalled. This trend is not universal however with some countries such as the Republic of Ireland continuing to see increases in life expectancy at a similar rate before and
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Figure 6: Life expectancy at birth in EU countries. 1980-1982 to 2017-2019
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Figure 6a. Life expectancy at birth in EU countries. 1980-1982 to 2017-2019, Males
Source: National life tables for Scotland (NRS), National life tables for the UK (ONS), Eurostat (tps00025) Dashed lines represent eastern European countries which have historically lower life expectancy. Life expectancy for non-UK countries is based on one year of data, e.g. 2016-2018is based on population and deaths in the year 2017© Crown Copyright 2020
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Figure 6b. Life expectancy at birth in EU countries. 1980-1982 to 2017-2019, Females
Source: National life tables for Scotland (NRS), National life tables for the UK (ONS), Eurostat (tps00025) Dashed lines represent eastern European countries which have historically lower life expectancy. Life expectancy for non-UK countries is based on one year of data, e.g. 2016-2018is based on population and deaths in the year 2017© Crown Copyright 2020
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6. Life expectancy and population dynamics: time to deathstatistics
Life expectancy estimates can also be used to look at population ageing. As life
expectancy increases, the age at which a person is ‘elderly’ or approaching death changes. Figure 7 shows the average age at which males and females in Scotland have only 15 years of life remaining. This age has risen from age 66.5 in females in 1981-1983 to 71.2 in 2017-2019. For males, the average age at which 15 years of
life remains has risen from 60.8 to 68.6 over the same period.
Figure 7. Age at which a person has 15 years remaining life expectancy in Scotland, 1981-1983 to 2017-2019
Source: National Life Tables for Scotland (NRS)
Figure 8a and Figure 8b show the percentage of the male and female
population of Scotland that has on average 15 or fewer years of remaining life expectancy. In both cases, the percentage has fallen
between 1981-1983 and 2010-2012, by 3.1% for males and 2.7% for females. Figure 8a and Figure 8b also show that the percentage of
male and female population aged 65 and above has grown over the same period. As the large birth cohorts from the baby boom years have become
older and life expectancy has increased, the number of people over 65 has increased in Scotland. At the same time, from the 1980s until
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Source: National Life Tables for Scotland (NRS)© Crown Copyright 2020
Why does ‘time to death’ matter?
Often, we define the ‘elderly’
population as those aged over 65. However, studies show that a lot of the health problems related to old age are more closely associated with
how long someone has left to live rather than how long they have already lived. This means it may be more useful for health and social
care policy to look at how many people have only 15 years of life expectancy remaining, rather than the number of people aged 65 and
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increasing, so the average age at death was also increasing. This means that although the elderly population was growing, the number of people close to death was decreasing. Figure 8a and Figure 8b show that when improvements to life
expectancy began to slow, the percent of the population with 15 or fewer years remaining life expectancy stopped decreasing, indicating that the number of people approaching the end of their lives is no longer decreasing in Scotland. Since 2012-2014, this group has begun to increase slightly.
Figure 8: Percent of population aged 65 years or older and with 15 or fewer years of remaining life expectancy. 1981-1983 to 2017-2019
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Figure 8b: Percent of female population aged 65 years or older and with 15 or fewer years of remaining life expectancy. 1981-1983 to 2017-2019
Source: National Life Tables for Scotland (NRS)© Crown Copyright 2020
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7. Life expectancy in council areas
Figure 9 shows that the council area where life expectancy at birth was highest for females was East Renfrewshire. Here, a girl born in 2017-2019 could expect to live for 84.0 (±0.6) years. The council area where life expectancy was highest for males was East Dunbartonshire where a boy born in 2017-2019 could expect to live for
80.5 (±0.6) years. In contrast, life expectancy was lowest in Glasgow City, where females could expect to live for 78.5 (±0.3) years and males for 73.6 (±0.3) years. This represents 5.5 fewer years of life for females and 6.9 fewer years of life for males compared with East Renfrewshire and East Dunbartonshire respectively.
Figure 9. Life expectancy at birth in council areas with 95% confidence intervals, 2017-2019 (ordered by female life expectancy)
Source: National Life Tables for Scotland (NRS)
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What are 95% confidence intervals?
This is a measure of the uncertainty around the subnational life expectancy estimates. In this report, confidence intervals are quoted in brackets, for example: 81 (± 0.7) years. These represent the range of values that the actual value is likely to lie within. The wider the confidence intervals, the less accurate the estimate is.
Estimates from larger populations (such as health boards) will have smaller confidence intervals and therefore be more accurate than estimates from smaller populations (such as parliamentary constituencies) which have large confidence intervals.
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8. Life expectancy in NHS health boards
Figure 10: Life expectancy at birth in NHS health boards with 95% confidence
intervals, 2017-2019 (ordered by female life expectancy)
Source: National Life Tables for Scotland (NRS)
Figure 10 shows life expectancy at birth in NHS health boards in Scotland. Shetland health board had the highest life expectancy at birth for both males and females. Males born in Shetland between 2017 and 2019 had a life expectancy of 80.2 (±1.4)
years while females born in Western Isles at the same time had a life expectancy of 83.4 (±1.0) years. The health board with the lowest life expectancy was Greater Glasgow and Clyde, where males could expect to live 75.4 (±0.2) years and females could expect to live 80.0 (±0.2) years. As with the council level estimates, please
note the very large confidence intervals around the estimates for the smallest communities, especially the island health boards.
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Why are there two male life expectancy estimates for Scotland?
The headline life expectancy figure comes from the national life tables for Scotland, where estimates are calculated using single year of age data. However,
life expectancy for subnational areas are calculated using 5 year age groups (‘abridged life tables’). We also produce a Scotland level estimate using abridged life tables so that it can be properly compared with subnational life expectancy. So, if we want talk just about Scottish life expectancy (as in figure 1), we use the
figure from the national life tables. If we are comparing with subnational life expectancy (as in figure 9), we use the abridged life tables. The figures are always very similar, but this year male life expectancy at birth rounds to 77.1 in the national life tables and 77.2 in the abridged life tables.
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9. The stall in life expectancy growth across Scotland’s councilareas As can be seen in Figure 3, the rate of life expectancy change has stalled over the last few years in Scotland. This stall in life expectancy growth has been seen all
across Scotland, however, in some areas the change has been greater than others. Figure 11 shows that in some council areas, for example Dundee City and Inverclyde, the rate of growth has fallen dramatically from before 2012-2014 to after 2012-2014. Figure 11 also shows that while some council areas have seen modest
increases in the rate of change (for example, Shetland Islands), the vast majority of areas are now experiencing a slower rate of growth in life expectancy and many areas now have decreasing life expectancy.
Figure 11: Change in the rate of life expectancy growth in council areas, before and after 2012-2014
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10. Life expectancy by deprivation
While life expectancy varies between geographical areas like council areas and
health boards, the difference in life expectancy is far greater when we split Scotland by deprivation. Figure 12 shows life expectancy at birth in SIMD (Scottish index of multiple deprivation) deciles. For males born in 2017-2019, life expectancy at birth was 69.5 (±0.3) years in deprivation decile 1 (the 10% most deprived areas)
compared with 82.8 (±0.3) years in decile 10 (the 10% least deprived areas), a gap of 13.3 years. For females born at the same time, life expectancy was 75.6 (±0.3) years in decile 1 and 85.6 (±0.3) years in decile 10, a gap of 10.0 years.
Figure 12: Life expectancy at birth by SIMD decile, 2017-2019
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SIMD quintiles. More information can be found on the Scottish Government website.
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11. Life expectancy in urban and rural areasLife expectancy also varies by rurality across Scotland with people living in morerural areas generally living longer and spending more years in good health than
those in more urban areas. Figure 13 shows life expectancy by Urban-Rural 2018based classification. For males life expectancy was highest in ‘Accesible Rural’areas at 79.7 (±0.3) years and for females it was highest in ‘Remote Rural’ areas at83.1 (±0.3) years. Life expectancy was lowest for males in ‘Large Urban’ areas
(76.1±0.2 years) and lowest for females in ‘Other Urban’ areas (80.5±0.1 years).
Figure 13: Life expectancy at birth by urban-rural classification 2017-2019
12. Related statistics, methodology and background
Life tables for the UK and constituent countries are available on the Office forNational Statistics website.
Healthy Life expectancy for Scotland and areas within Scotland are availableon the National Records of Scotland website. This includes Scottish councilareas, health boards and areas split by Scottish index of multiple deprivation.
The next release will be in December 2020.
The number and causes of deaths registered in Scotland each year arepublished on the National Records of Scotland website.
Methodology and comparisons across the UK
The National Records of Scotland website has a guide that describes the methodology used to produce the life expectancy statistics for Scotland. This
methodology is similar to that used to produce life expectancy estimates in other UK constituent countries.
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Quality of administrative data sources
Life expectancy is calculated using mid-year population estimates and deaths data as inputs. Information about the quality of deaths data is available on the Vital
Events section of the NRS website.
Information on background and source data
Further details on data source(s), timeframe of data and timeliness, continuity of
data, accuracy, etc. can be found in the About this Publication document that is published alongside this publication on the NRS website.
13. Notes on statistical publications
The United Kingdom Statistics Authority (UKSA) has designated these statistics as National Statistics, in line with the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 and signifying compliance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (available on the
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National Statistics status means that official statistics meet the highest standards of trustworthiness, quality and public value.
All official statistics should comply with all aspects of the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. They are awarded National Statistics status following an assessment by the Authority’s regulatory arm. The Authority considers whether the statistics meet
the highest standards of Code compliance, including the value they add to public decisions and debate.
It is National Records of Scotland’s responsibility to maintain compliance with the
standards expected of National Statistics. If we become concerned about whether these statistics are still meeting the appropriate standards, we will discuss any concerns with the Authority promptly. National Statistics status can be removed at any point when the highest standards are not maintained, and reinstated when
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National Records of Scotland
We, the National Records of Scotland, are a non-ministerial department of the devolved Scottish Administration. Our aim is to provide relevant and reliable information, analysis and advice that meets the needs of government, business and the people of Scotland. We do this as follows:
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