South Koreans expected to live longer, as more take interest in health
- 5 years ago
작년 신생아 기대 수명 82.7세…남녀격차 더 줄어
Data from South Korea's statistics bureau shows... infants born in the country last year are expected to live an average of more than 80 years.
The numbers improved in all age groups under 90 as well.
A trend driven mainly by continued advacements in healthcare and technology.
Oh Soo-young help us look beyond the numbers.
South Koreans are expected to live longer than ever before.
According to Statistics Korea,... an infant born last year is expected to live 82-point-seven years,... which is zero-point-three years longer than 2016,...and nearly four years longer than a decade before.
Excluding South Koreans aged ninety and above, the average remaining life expectancy increased for all age groups by roughly zero-point-three years.
A forty-year old woman is likely to live another 47 years,... while a man of the same age is expected to live 41 years more.
Compared to the 1980s,... when the average life expectancy for men was 8 years shorter than that of women,... the gap has now been reduced to six years,... zero-point-one year lower from last year.
Women are now expected to live until they're almost 86 years old,... while men are likely to live until they're nearly 80.
Both figures beat the OECD's average figures -- at 83-point-3 years for women and 77-point-nine years for men.
In fact, South Korean women have the third-longest lifespan among their OECD peers, from 35 other countries.
"It seems Koreans are doing more to take care of their health and the level of medical care and technology is also increasing, which helps early diagnosis and treatment of diseases. This is also true for men, who seem to be drinking and smoking less than before and doing more exercise. So their death rate has been declining."
Although the country's lifespan has been seeing an upward trend,... Statistics Korea stresses that there's also been an increase of deaths caused by pneumonia.
The data agency says the respiratory condition is now the third most probable cause of death for South Koreans born last year following cancer and heart disease.
Oh Soo-young, Arirang News.
Data from South Korea's statistics bureau shows... infants born in the country last year are expected to live an average of more than 80 years.
The numbers improved in all age groups under 90 as well.
A trend driven mainly by continued advacements in healthcare and technology.
Oh Soo-young help us look beyond the numbers.
South Koreans are expected to live longer than ever before.
According to Statistics Korea,... an infant born last year is expected to live 82-point-seven years,... which is zero-point-three years longer than 2016,...and nearly four years longer than a decade before.
Excluding South Koreans aged ninety and above, the average remaining life expectancy increased for all age groups by roughly zero-point-three years.
A forty-year old woman is likely to live another 47 years,... while a man of the same age is expected to live 41 years more.
Compared to the 1980s,... when the average life expectancy for men was 8 years shorter than that of women,... the gap has now been reduced to six years,... zero-point-one year lower from last year.
Women are now expected to live until they're almost 86 years old,... while men are likely to live until they're nearly 80.
Both figures beat the OECD's average figures -- at 83-point-3 years for women and 77-point-nine years for men.
In fact, South Korean women have the third-longest lifespan among their OECD peers, from 35 other countries.
"It seems Koreans are doing more to take care of their health and the level of medical care and technology is also increasing, which helps early diagnosis and treatment of diseases. This is also true for men, who seem to be drinking and smoking less than before and doing more exercise. So their death rate has been declining."
Although the country's lifespan has been seeing an upward trend,... Statistics Korea stresses that there's also been an increase of deaths caused by pneumonia.
The data agency says the respiratory condition is now the third most probable cause of death for South Koreans born last year following cancer and heart disease.
Oh Soo-young, Arirang News.