THE latest figures available from the Office for National Statistics show that women can live up to three years longer than men in Bury.
The ONS figures show that women at birth will live on average for between 80.7 and 81.6 years, while for men it stands at between 78 and 79 years.
The statistics come from the latest report - covering 2015-17.
Life expectancy and health state life expectancies are often important high-level measures of a population’s health status.
All figures of life expectancy are period-based measures.
Period expectation of life at a given age for an area in a given time period is an estimate of the average number of years a person of that age would survive if he or she experienced the particular area’s age-specific mortality rates for that time period throughout the rest of his or her life.
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