Only Andalusia is below 82 years
According to data from the World Health Organization in 2020 Spain, It is the fifth country with the highest life expectancy in the world with an average of 83.2 years and the sixth with 83.18 years, according to data from the World Bank Group of this same year, they explain from The confidential. Something in which experts consider that the Mediterranean diet has a lot to do with.
Although it is true that depending on the autonomous community there are differences in life expectancy and the eating style and per capita income of each country can explain why people live longer in some places than in others.
He INE (Statistics National Institute) has recently published data on life expectancy by autonomous community with data from 2021. Madrid It is undoubtedly the region where this is highest, with an average of 84.63 years. In that year in Madrid, «the average is slightly lower than that of 2019, although it recovers compared to 2020: it is evident that the ravages of the pandemic caused this small decrease between 2020-2021»they explain from the same medium.
Communities that follow Madrid in terms of life expectancy
Senior women playing board game in a senior home.
A Madrid they follow him Navarra with a life expectancy of 84.28, Castile and León con 83,93, Basque Country at 83.69 years old, Cantabria at 83.64 years old, Galicia con 83,40, Balearics con 83,36, Catalonia at 83.34 years old, Aragon at 83.24 years old, The Rioja, 83.22 years, Castilla la Mancha, 83.01 years, Asturias, 82.74 years, Canary Islands, 82.54 years, Valencian Community, 82.22 years, Region of Murcia, 82.21 years, Estremadura, 82.14 years and Andalusia in which there is the lowest life expectancy at 81.49 years
Differences are also found between sexes, women live on average five years longer than men, as corroborated by data from the Madrid’s community where they live until they are 87.14 years old, while men only reach 81.81. Currently the oldest living woman on record is Spanish. Maria Branyas, 116 years old.
2023-11-09 13:50:30
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