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Life Expectancy at Scotland Level

Last Updated: 2 August 2012

Scottish Interim Life Tables

The Government Actuary's Department (GAD) was formerly responsible for producing (between census years) national life tables, which give statistics on expectation of life. Each year ungraduated Interim Life Tables were produced for the United Kingdom and each of its constituent countries, using data for a period of three consecutive years.

On 31 January 2006, responsibility for the production of national Interim Life Tables, and Decennial Life Tables, transferred to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Table 1 - below - contains period life expectancy for Scotland back to 1861-70. Each life expectancy figure is based on aggregate mortality rates for the groups of years shown. The data provides a historical comparison in which fluctuations in mortality that occur between calendar years have been smoothed out to some extent.

Table 2 - below - shows extracts from the most recent Scottish Interim Life Tables (also known as period life tables, ungraduated life tables and national life tables) for selected ages. Historic Life Tables (for the UK and its constituent countries) or further detail on life expectancy for specific ages not presented in Table 2 is available in the Historic Interim Life Tables section of the GAD website.

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Table 1	Expectation of life, by sex and selected age, Scotland, 1861 to 2011 (Excel CSV PDF)
Table 2	Extract from Interim Life Table by sex and age, Scotland, 2009 to 2011 (Excel CSV PDF)

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