Statistics Jersey’s new Life Expectancy report says that between 2016 and 2018 the average life expectancy for new-born Jersey females was 84.6 years, while for males it was 80.8 years.
By comparison English women can expect to live for 83.2 years, while for men the life expectancy is 79.6 years.
The report says that its figures are accurate to within 0.6 years for Jersey and 0.1 years for England.
It adds that there has only been a modest shift in Islanders’ life expectancy during the last ten years.
‘Life expectancy for both males and females has increased slightly since the beginning of the decade, but the increase is not statistically significant,’ it says.
Further research in the report indicates that Jersey men can expect to live in ‘good’ or ‘very good’ health until the age of 66.4, while for women the ‘healthy life expectancy’ is 70.2 years-old.
And figures for 65-year-old Islanders indicate that men who have reached that age can expect to live for a further 19.4 years, on average, and women will on average have an extra 21.8 years of life.
Last month Statistics Jersey’s Mortality Report showed that Islanders are now living 11 years longer than they did in the 1960s.
For men the average age of death increased by 13 years between 1960 and 2018, while for women it increased by nine.
