Older men in particular are benefiting from the increase in life expectancy. For 65-year-old men, remaining life expectancy rose by about two months compared to the previous year, to 18.2 years, corresponding to an average age of 83.2 years – a new high. For women of the same age, remaining life expectancy remained at 21.2 years, still slightly below the pre-crisis level of 2019 (21.3 years).
Compared to 2022, which was still marked by the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, women have gained around nine months and men almost 13 months in life expectancy. The recovery from pandemic-related declines is thus continuing.
Baden-Württemberg remains the state with the highest life expectancy: in the three-year period from 2023 to 2025, newborn girls there reach an average of 84.4 years, boys 80.3 years. The lowest values are recorded in Saarland for women (82.0 years) and Saxony-Anhalt for men (76.4 years). The largest gender gap is in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania at over six years, the smallest in Baden-Württemberg and Saarland at just over four years each.
Source: www.faz.net
