Taiwanese life expectancy at birth averaged 78.57 years last year, up 0.19 years from the 2007 average, the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) announced yesterday.
Over the past 13 years, life expectancy has increased 4.04 years, the ministry said after publishing last year’s life expectancy chart.
By comparison, life expectancy in Taiwan last year was three years shorter than in Japan, two years less than in Singapore and in France, and one year shorter than in Canada, but longer than those in the US, China, Malaysia and in the Philippines, while on par with South Korea, the UK and Germany.
Last year, Taiwanese males and females lived 75.59 years and 81.94 years respectively on average, it said.
In terms of administrative areas, residents of Taipei City lived the longest at 81.87 years last year, followed by Kaohsiung City residents with an average life expectancy of 78.21 years, the MOI statistics showed.
In both cities, as well as in other localities, females lived longer their males, with the female population in Taipei City taking the lead.
In terms of geographic regions, residents of northern Taiwan, regardless of gender, enjoyed the longest life expectancy at 80 years, ahead of their counterparts in central Taiwan with 78.03 years and those in southern Taiwan with an average life expectancy of 77.41 years.
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