Healthy Life Expectancy Estimates With Health-Adjusted Years

Global estimates of Healthy Life Expectancy (HALE), which adjusts standard life expectancy for time spent in poor health. The dataset was produced by the CEOS_EXTRA organization. The last recorded update was in December 2002.

Use Cases

• Compare HALE and standard life expectancy (LEX) metrics to assess health system performance.
• Analyze the prevalence distribution of health states across different demographic groups.
• Model the relationship between mortality rates and years lived in full health for policy simulation.
• Track changes in health-adjusted life expectancy over time for longitudinal studies.

Strengths

• Provides a specific health-adjusted metric (HALE) beyond standard life expectancy.
• Produced by an authoritative organization (CEOS_EXTRA).

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, with a last update recorded in 2002.
• Specific geographic coverage, row count, and column details are unknown.
• Prevalence distribution of health states may be based on estimates with inherent uncertainty.

Provenance

Source

CEOS_EXTRA

Collection Method

Calculated from life expectancy (LEX) and an adjustment for time spent in poor health based on prevalence of health states.

Geography

Global (inferred from description)