Canadian life expectancy up, but still below 2012 levels – CTV
Dec. 6, 2024
The average Canadian can expect to live 81.7 years, according to new death data from Statistics Canada.
The latest data analyzes deaths from 2023. Life expectancy is up from 81.3 years in 2022 but is still lower than it was before the pandemic.
Life expectancy from birth was 81.76 years in 2012 and had risen to a high of 82.23 in 2019.
By 2022, it had dropped more than one year from its peak, down to 81.29 years. The rise this past year marked the first time since 2019 that life expectancy had risen from the previous year.
Before 2012, the number had been consistently rising for decades. Canadians can expect to live approximately seven years longer than they could in 1980, when life expectancy was approximately 75 years.
Read more: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/canadian-life-expectancy-up-but-still-below-2012-levels-1.7135361
