France is one of the countries in Europe where people age best…
What is the healthy life expectancy of French people after retirement? This is the question that the French authors of the Statista site wanted to answer. And we can say that the French are better housed than most of their European neighbors.
The life expectancy of the population is an indicator that often comes up in debates on the legal age to set for retirement. Based on the principle that life expectancy without suffering from disability is even more relevant, experts from the Statista site sought to calculate the number of years that Europeans can hope to enjoy their retirement in good health.
On average, in the 29 European countries, healthy life expectancy after retirement is around 12 years for an average effective age of exit from the labor market which was 63 years. We can therefore hope to live until the age of 75 in good health when we live in Europe. Norwegians, Slovenes and Luxembourgers are those who live the longest in good health after retirement (15 to 16 years on average), knowing that in Luxembourg and Slovenia, residents retire on average at 60 years old.
The French, like the Maltese, the Belgians and the Swedes, are not very far behind and are also above the European average with 14 to 15 years of life in good health after retirement. Which brings them close to 80 years old. “In detail, the two Scandinavian nations, Malta, Slovenia, France and Belgium, are among the eight countries in the region studied which display the longest life expectancy without disability after 65 years” underline the experts of Statista. It must nevertheless be emphasized that these are averages at the country level and that the durations vary according to socio-professional categories and standard of living. In France, for example, INSEE figures show that workers live on average 6 years less than managers, and that the poorest 5% die on average 13 years earlier than the richest 5%.
The worst off in the analysis are Baltic, Portuguese and Romanian retirees for whom life expectancy without disability is less than 10 years. It even goes down to less than 7 years in Estonia and 5 years in Romania. “These national averages are the consequence of a combination of a late average retirement age (65 years or older) and poor health indicators within the population” argue the specialists.