In 2023, the average life expectancy at birth in South Korea was 83.5 years. This represents an increase compared to the previous year. Life expectancy has increased steadily since 2008, when it was 80.2 years. Overall, women show higher life expectancies than men, a difference of around six years.

In 2023, the average life expectancy of women at birth in South Korea was **** years. The life expectancy of women in South Korea has steadily increased over the past decades. Rising life expectancy In South Korea, women had a significantly higher life expectancy at birth than men, with a difference of around six years. Over the past few decades, the overall life expectancy for both genders has increased, reaching nearly 83 years. This places South Korea's life expectancy significantly higher in international comparisons. Aging population South Korea's population is experiencing significant demographic changes. Life expectancy is increasing due to improved healthcare and living standards, while the fertility rate has dropped to a historically low level. This demographic shift is expected to persist in the coming years. In December 2024, South Korea became a "super-aged society," with over ** percent of the population being 65 years or older. If this trend persists, the country's total population is estimated to decrease to around ********** of the current population. Despite efforts to address the declining birth rate, South Korea has not been successful in reversing this trend.

In 2023, men aged 65 in South Korea were expected to live an average of about ** more years, while women aged 65 were expected to live around ** more years on average. The life expectancy of the elderly population has gradually increased since the *****.

In 2023, the average life expectancy of men at birth in South Korea was about **** years. Women were expected to live **** years. The overall life expectancy at birth of South Koreans stood at **** years.

South Korea Life Expectancy: At Birth: Male data was reported at 79.700 Year in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 79.300 Year for 2016. South Korea Life Expectancy: At Birth: Male data is updated yearly, averaging 69.100 Year from Dec 1970 (Median) to 2017, with 48 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 79.700 Year in 2017 and a record low of 58.700 Year in 1970. South Korea Life Expectancy: At Birth: Male data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Korea. The data is categorized under Global Database’s South Korea – Table KR.G004: Vital Statistics.

South Korea Life Expectancy: At Birth: Female data was reported at 85.700 Year in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 85.400 Year for 2016. South Korea Life Expectancy: At Birth: Female data is updated yearly, averaging 77.500 Year from Dec 1970 (Median) to 2017, with 48 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 85.700 Year in 2017 and a record low of 65.800 Year in 1970. South Korea Life Expectancy: At Birth: Female data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Korea. The data is categorized under Global Database’s South Korea – Table KR.G004: Vital Statistics.

As of 2023, the countries with the highest life expectancy included Switzerland, Japan, and Spain. As of that time, a new-born child in Switzerland could expect to live an average of **** years. Around the world, females consistently have a higher average life expectancy than males, with females in Europe expected to live an average of *** years longer than males on this continent. Increases in life expectancy The overall average life expectancy in OECD countries increased by **** years from 1970 to 2019. The countries that saw the largest increases included Turkey, India, and South Korea. The life expectancy at birth in Turkey increased an astonishing 24.4 years over this period. The countries with the lowest life expectancy worldwide as of 2022 were Chad, Lesotho, and Nigeria, where a newborn could be expected to live an average of ** years. Life expectancy in the U.S. The life expectancy in the United States was ***** years as of 2023. Shockingly, the life expectancy in the United States has decreased in recent years, while it continues to increase in other similarly developed countries. The COVID-19 pandemic and increasing rates of suicide and drug overdose deaths from the opioid epidemic have been cited as reasons for this decrease.

Objective Gains in life expectancy have faltered in several high-income countries in recent years. We aim to compare life expectancy trends in Scotland to those seen internationally, and to assess the timing of any recent changes in mortality trends for Scotland. Setting Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England & Wales, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, USA. Methods We used life expectancy data from the Human Mortality Database (HMD) to calculate the mean annual life expectancy change for 24 high-income countries over five-year periods from 1992 to 2016, and the change for Scotland for five-year periods from 1857 to 2016. One- and two-break segmented regression models were applied to mortality data from National Records of Scotland (NRS) to identify turning points in age-standardised mortality trends between 1990 and 2018. Results In 2012-2016 life expectancies in Scotland increased by 2.5 weeks/year for females and 4.5 weeks/year for males, the smallest gains of any period since the early 1970s. The improvements in life expectancy in 2012-2016 were smallest among females (<2.0 weeks/year) in Northern Ireland, Iceland, England & Wales and the USA and among males (<5.0 weeks/year) in Iceland, USA, England & Wales and Scotland. Japan, Korea, and countries of Eastern Europe have seen substantial gains in the same period. The best estimate of when mortality rates changed to a slower rate of improvement in Scotland was the year to 2012 Q4 for males and the year to 2014 Q2 for females. Conclusion Life expectancy improvement has stalled across many, but not all, high income countries. The recent change in the mortality trend in Scotland occurred within the period 2012-2014. Further research is required to understand these trends, but governments must also take timely action on plausible contributors. Methods Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: The HMD has a detailed methods protocol available here: https://www.mortality.org/Public/Docs/MethodsProtocol.pdf The ONS and NRS also have similar methods for ensuring data consistency and quality assurance.

Methods for processing the data: The segmented regression was conducted using the 'segmented' package in R. The recommended references to this package and its approach are here: Vito M. R. Muggeo (2003). Estimating regression models with unknown break-points. Statistics in Medicine, 22, 3055-3071.

Vito M. R. Muggeo (2008). segmented: an R Package to Fit Regression Models with Broken-Line Relationships. R News, 8/1, 20-25. URL https://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/.

Vito M. R. Muggeo (2016). Testing with a nuisance parameter present only under the alternative: a score-based approach with application to segmented modelling. J of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 86, 3059-3067.

Vito M. R. Muggeo (2017). Interval estimation for the breakpoint in segmented regression: a smoothed score-based approach. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 59, 311-322.

Software- or Instrument-specific information needed to interpret the data, including software and hardware version numbers: The analyses were conducted in R version 3.6.1 and Microsoft Excel 2013.

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