Health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) at birth for men, women and the total population in Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and the EU-27, 2002 (source: WHO-HFA, 2007)
| Male
| Female
| Total
| | | Male
| Female
| Total
|
|---|
Austria
| 69.3
| 73.5
| 71.4
| | Lithuania
| 58.9
| 67.7
| 63.3
|
Belgium
| 68.9
| 73.3
| 71.1
| | Luxembourg
| 69.3
| 73.7
| 71.5
|
Bulgaria
| 62.5
| 66.8
| 64.6
| | Malta
| 69.7
| 72.3
| 71.0
|
Cyprus
| 66.7
| 68.5
| 67.6
| | Netherlands
| 69.7
| 72.6
| 71.2
|
Czech Republic
| 65.9
| 70.9
| 68.4
| | Norway
| 70.4
| 73.6
| 72.0
|
Denmark
| 68.6
| 71.1
| 69.8
| | Poland
| 63.1
| 68.5
| 65.8
|
Estonia
| 59.2
| 69.0
| 64.1
| | Portugal
| 66.7
| 71.7
| 69.2
|
Finland
| 68.7
| 73.5
| 71.1
| | Romania
| 61.0
| 65.2
| 63.1
|
France
| 69.3
| 74.7
| 72.0
| | Slovakia
| 63.0
| 69.4
| 66.2
|
Germany
| 69.6
| 74.0
| 71.8
| | Slovenia
| 66.6
| 72.3
| 69.5
|
Greece
| 69.1
| 72.9
| 71.0
| | Spain
| 69.9
| 75.3
| 72.6
|
Hungary
| 61.5
| 68.2
| 64.9
| | Sweden
| 71.9
| 74.8
| 73.3
|
Iceland
| 72.1
| 73.6
| 72.8
| | Switzerland
| 71.1
| 75.3
| 73.2
|
Ireland
| 68.1
| 71.5
| 69.8
| | United Kingdom
| 69.1
| 72.1
| 70.6
|
Italy
| 70.7
| 74.7
| 72.7
| | EU-27
| -
| -
| 70.3
|
Latvia
| 58.0
| 67.5
| 62.8
| | EU-15
| -
| -
| 71.7
|
- : no data available
Remarks
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Health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) is the average number of years that a person can expect to live in full health. HALE is calculated by subtracting from the life expectancy the average number of years in ill-health weighted for severity of the health problem.
WHO uses life tables and Sullivan's method to compute the HALE for countries. Briefly, HALE is estimated using three sources of information: the fraction of the population surviving to each age, calculated from birth and death rates; the prevalence of each type of disability at each age; and the weight assigned to each type of disability, which may or may not vary with age (WHO, 2000c). For more information see: HALE Method according to WHO Statistical Information System
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