Life expectancy at birth in Turkey: 78.6 years

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The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), Turkey's government agency commissioned with producing official statistics on the country, released its "Life Tables, 2017-2019" statistics today (September 17).

"Life expectancy at birth", which is the average number of years that an infant is supposed to live having been exposed to age specific mortality rates at certain periods all through his or her life, increased to 78.6 years in 2017-2019 period, whereas it was 78 years in 2013-2015 period.

* Click on the graph to enlarge - Life expectancy by sex and age

Women lived 5.4 years longer than men

Life expectancy at birth in Turkey, which was 75.3 years for men in 2013-2015 period, increased to 75.9 years in 2017-2019 and for women it increased from 80.7 to 81.3. In other words, women live longer than men in general and the difference in life expectancy at birth was 5.4 years.

Life expectancy at the age of 15: 64.6 years

For 15 year olds, who are defined as "persons at the minimum age to start working" by the TurkStat, the average remaining life expectancy was 64.6 years for total, 62 years for men and 67.3 years for women.

In Turkey, the average remaining life expectancy was 50 years for a person at the age of 30. This lifespan was 47.6 years for men while it was 52.5 years for women in this period. The difference between life expectancy of men and women at this age was 4.9 years.

Life expectancy at the age of 50: 30.9 years

In Turkey, the average remaining life expectancy was 30.9 years for a person at the age of 50. This lifespan was 28.6 years for men while it was 33.1 years for women. The TurkStat has calculated the remaining lifespan of a person at the age of 65 as 18 years on average.

This lifespan was 16.3 years for men and 19.6 years for women. In other words, at age 65, women are expected to live 3.3 years longer than men on average. (HA/SD)