As of January 1, 2023, France has 68 million inhabitants according to INSEE, which at the same time publishes the latest figures on life expectancy for men and women.
L’life expectancy increases again in France according to figures published by theInsee on January 17, 2023, but remains lower by 0.4 years compared to 2019. In question, a sharp drop observed in 2020 in connection with the first two waves of the pandemic Covid-19. What is the definition life expectancy? What is the life expectancy at birth in France ? Of the men ? Of the women ? Statistics.
What is the definition of life expectancy?
the term “hope” does not refer to hope, but to its statistical significance, the mathematical expectation i.e. the expected value. According to’InseeI’Life expectancy at birth corresponds to the average life of a fictitious generation (imaginary, editor’s note) subject, at each age, to mortality conditions of a given year. It is a snapshot of a country’s mortality conditions at a given time.
Life expectancy is calculated using mortality tables. These tables contain for a given period (year X) mortality quotients, i.e. the frequency of deaths at age X among individuals having reached this age X. These quotients are then applied to a fictitious population – for example 100,000 individuals- in order toget the number of survivors at each age.
► Example: if the risk of dying before the 1st birthday is 5 per 1000, there will be 500 deaths within a year. It is then necessary to apply to (100,000 individuals -500 deaths) that is 99,500 survivors at 1 year, the risk of dying between 1 and 2 years and so on for each age.
The life expectancy figure will then correspond to theaverage age at death of this fictional generation of 100,000 individuals subjected throughout their life to the mortality observed in the year of their birth. The calculation can then be made at any age of life: 10 years, 60 years, 80 years… to estimate the average number of years remaining to live under the conditions of mortality by age of the year considered . L’life expectancy is not a forecast, but a synthetic indicator mortality in a given year.
What is the life expectancy in France?
According to figures published by INSEE on January 17, 2023, French life expectancy in 2022 is of 85.2 years for women and of 79.3 years for men. Men gain 0.1 year of life expectancy compared to 2021. Women’s life expectancy remains the same as in 2021. Due to its sharp drop in 2020 (− 0.5 year for women, − 0.6 years for men), life expectancy in France is 0.4 years lower than in 2019, for both women and men. In 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemicthe life expectancy at birth of women was 85.6 years and that of men was 79.7 years. Life expectancy in France, on the other hand, is more than two years higher than the average of the 27 countries of the European Union (2021 figures: 82.8 years for women, 77.2 years for men).
What is the life expectancy of men in France?
The life expectancy of men born in France is 79.3 years old.
What is the life expectancy of women in France?
The life expectancy of women born in France is 85.2 years old.
Population aging is accelerating
As of January 1, 2023, in France, 21.3% of residents are 65 or older. “This proportion has been increasing for more than thirty years and the population aging has accelerated since the mid-2010swith the arrival at these ages of the large baby-boom generations (children born just after the end of the Second World War (1945)” reports INSEE. This observation is shared by the 27 countries of the European Union: in 2021, people aged 65 or over represented 20.8% of the population of the EU27, compared to 17.8% in 2011. Their share is above 22% in Italy, Finland, Greece, Portugal and Germany.
How many deaths per year in France?
In 2022, 667,000 people died in France according to estimates made at the end of November 2022 by INSEE. It is 5,000 more than in 2021 (+0.8%) and significantly more than in 2019 (+ 54,000). “Due to thearrival of large baby-boom generations at ages of high mortalitythe number of deaths tends to increase”, explains the Institute of Statistics. The increase in 2020 is related to first two waves of the Covid-19 epidemic (48,000 more deaths in 2020). In 2021the number of deaths remained high with 43,000 more deaths than the expected number. 2022 was marked by the spread of the Covid Omicron varianthighly contagious, late flu epidemic, peaking in April and three periods of heat wave (mid-June, from July 10 to 25 and the first half of August).
Sources: Demographic report 2022. Insee. January 17, 2023 / Ined.