Average life expectancy at birth is now close to 81, almost four years more than in 1991

Quality of life in Spain has improved to such an extent since 1991 that life expectancy at birth is now almost four years more than it would have been 18 years ago. The average age a Spaniard can expect to reach is now almost 81, according to a new report published by the INE National Statistics Institute this Tuesday, based on information from 2007.

A Spaniard lucky enough to have been born in Navarra or the Madrid region could live beyond the age of 82. Spanish women can meanwhile expect to live an average of more than 6 years longer than a Spanish man.

The infant mortality rate is slightly higher for boys than it is for girls, but the rate as a whole has dropped by almost half since 1991. The statistics show 7.2 deaths for every 1,000 children below the age of one in 1991, while in 2007 the figure was 3.5.

The OCDE’s ‘Health at a glance’ report for 2009 was released earlier this month and showed that Spanish women are amongst the longest-lived in the world’s developed countries. Average life expectancy was shown to be 84.3, while the age for Spanish men was 77.8 (Via Original Source)

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