Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years.
Fact-check: Is healthy life expectancy in Northern Ireland almost ten years lower than in Ireland? - FactCheckNI
Verdict: healthy life expectancy  is the number of years someone can expect to live in good health: for ni, the current estimate for hle is around 62 years while, for ireland, it is 69.4 years. however, northern ireland uses a different definition of good health, meaning direct comparisons between the two figures are ill-advised. analysis of other hle estimates indicates the gap between ni and roi is nowhere near ten years
Organisation: FactCheckNI
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2023-03-16T00:00:00