Assisted population: life expectancy

Life expectancy at birth according to the 2013 provincial mortality tables is 80.8 years for men and 85.6 years for women. According to ISTAT estimates for 2015 there is a higher life expectancy in the Province of Bolzano than the national average (80.9 vs 80.1 for men and 85.6 vs 84.7 for women). Life expectancy at birth has been growing steadily in recent years. In the last ten years, 2.1 years of life expectancy at birth for men and one for women have been earned. Compared to 2014, 0.3 years were lost for men and earned 0.1 for women. However, the difference in life expectancy between males and females is gradually decreasing over the years (from 8.1 years of tables 1977-79 to 4.7 of the most recent tables).