Staff Reporter
SPAIN’S average life expectancy is famously high, consistently coming in above neighbouring France or the United States, for example.
But in the southern region of Andalucia, the average life expectancy broke all existing records last year, coming in at 82.5 years – the highest since the current statistical series began way back in 1975.
That’s according to advance data from the region’s Demographic Information System, a tool created by the Andalusian Statistics and Cartography Institute (IECA) and reported by website Andalucia Informacion.
As well as hitting a record high last year, the figures had also recovered considerably from a fall.
This drop was, of course, caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Life expectancy in 2019 for example, the last full year before the pandemic hit, was 82.1 in Andalucia.
In 2020 and 2021, meanwhile, it was 81.4, as the virus ripped its way through the population.
Broken down by province, Malaga has the highest life expectancy in Andalucia, coming in at 83.
That’s followed by Granada (82.9), Cordoba and Jaen (82.6), Seville (82.5), Cadiz (82), Huelva (81.8) and Almeria (81.7).
