Disability-Free Life Expectancy by Upper Tier Local Authority: England 2009-11 and comparison with 2006-08

25 Jul 2014 02:39 PM

Key points

• Females at birth in 2009-11 in England can expect to live a further 1.0 year with a disability than in 2006-08. For males it was a further 0.4 years.
• Women at age 65 in England in 2009-11 can expect to live a further 0.6 years without a disability. For men it was an extra 0.5 years without a disability.
• Females at birth in Herefordshire in 2009-11 have a Disability-Free Life Expectancy (DFLE) of 71.7 years. This is 16.1 years longer than females in Tower Hamlets, where DFLE was 55.6 years.
• Males at birth in Richmond upon Thames in 2009-11 have a DFLE of 69.9 years. This is 13.5 years longer than males in Liverpool, where DFLE was 56.4 years
• For males at birth, four out of the nine local authorities located in the North East had significant improvements in DFLE between 2006-08 and 2009-11. However none of these local authorities had a higher DFLE than the England average.

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