Life expectancy rises slightly in Canada
CBC News
Posted: Sep 27, 2011 3:37 PM ET
Last Updated: Sep 27, 2011 8:33 PM ET
A baby born in 2006 may expect to live to an average of 80.9. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)
Related
External Links
(Note:CBC does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external links.)
A baby born in 2006 in Canada can expect to live to an average age of 80.9, Statistics Canada says.
That's up 0.2 years from 2005-07, the agency said Tuesday in its report on rising life expectancy, titled Deaths 2008.
Three provinces showed life expectancy at birth that were above the national average:
- British Columbia at 81.4 years.
- Ontario at 81.3 years.
- Quebec at 81.0 years.
Men generally have a lower life expectancy than women, but the gap has narrowed in the past decade.
Between 1996-98, the gap in life expectancy at birth between men and women was 5.6 years, up from 4.6 years in 2006-08.
Among seniors, life expectancy at age 65 reached another 20.0 years in 2006-08, up 0.2 years compared with 2005-07.
In 2008, 238,617 people died in the country, up 1.4 per cent from the year before.
The infant mortality rate stayed the same at 5.1 infant deaths per 1,000 live births.
Share Tools
Top News Headlines
- Tories line up to argue CP Railway strike hurting economy
- Conservative cabinet ministers say they're protecting the economy by moving to legislate Canadian Pacific Railway workers back to their jobs less than a week after the union went on strike, while the employees say their right to collective bargaining is under attack. more »
- Missing Winnipeg kids found in Mexico back with mom
- Two Winnipeg children who had been missing for nearly four years are back home, reunited with their mother, after they were located in Mexico late last week. more »
- Bullyproof: One classroom confession
- Chadia became physically scarred after incessant teasing. Her story is one of 150 gathered in a video confessional booth at a Quebec school. more »
- Quebec resumes talks with student leaders
- Negotiations between student leaders and Quebec's Liberal government resumed this afternoon in a third attempt to resolve the tuition crisis. more »
Latest Health News Headlines
- 5 ways to prevent kids from getting poisoned
- Poison centres across Canada field about 160,000 calls a year about children exposed to medications and other household chemicals more »
- Dementia patients may not imagine their future
- Our ability to imagine our future depends on a part of the brain used to store general knowledge, which is affected by some forms of dementia. more »
- Eastern Health to cut hundreds of jobs, Liberals say
- Health Minister Susan Sullivan says spending cuts at the province's largest health authority will not hurt programs and services, despite a claim by the Opposition Liberals. more »
- Ontario knocked for special-needs student support
- The province should conduct a review of how it serves special-needs students and improve a policy to support connections between schools and the community, a new report urges. more »
FEATURED HEALTH
- Missing Winnipeg kids found in Mexico back with mom
- Canadian Everest climber's body recovered
- Thunder Bay flooding causes state of emergency
- Vatican denies cardinal suspected in leaks scandal
- Evolution skeptics will soon be silenced by science: Richard Leakey
- Tories line up to argue CP Railway strike hurting economy
- Remains found in bag on Cape Breton river ID'd
- Justin Bieber wanted for questioning in L.A. scuffle
- Accused in blast that killed Alberta mom handled her funds
