Ian Sample

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So this is an analysis by a think tank called the Health Foundation.

And what they've done is draw on UK data from the Office for National Statistics.

And they've also got similar data from other countries.

So healthy life expectancy is pretty much what it says on the can.

How long am I expected to live without any sort of ongoing health problems?

So how long is my healthy life?

Sometimes called health span as well.

And the way they get this information is it's essentially self-reported.

So people say, yes, I'm in very good health, good, fair, bad, very bad.

So you get a sense of what ages are people saying they're in these different categories.

I'll give you the top line figures and then we can break it down a bit.

So if you look at the healthy life expectancy over the period 2012 to 2014, that was 62.9 years for men on average, and for women it was 63.7 years.

What the support does then is it looks at what those figures are for 2022 to 2024.

Okay,

And at that point, it was 60.7 years for men.

And for women, it was 60.9 years.