WOMEN are expected to continue to outlive men in Northern Ireland, according to new life expectancy statistics.
However, while the trend of women living longer is expected to continue, new figures from the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency show that life expectancy for men has increased slightly over the past decade by two-and-a-half-years to two years for women.
In Northern Ireland, men born between 2011 and 2013 can expect to live until 78 whereas women born during the same period can expect to live just more than four years longer to reach the age of 82.
Among those living longest are residents in the Lisburn & Castlereagh local government area whose life expectancy has gone up by three years, rising from 76 to 79 and in the Fermanagh & Omagh area which has recorded a life expectancy from 75 to 78.
For women the highest level of improvement was also been recorded in Fermanagh & Omagh, rising from 80 to 83.
However there is a contrast between people living in rural areas and the city as statistics also reveal that men and women born in Belfast between 2011 and 2013 can expect to live on average to 75 years and 81 years respectively.
By contrast, men born in Lisburn and Castlereagh can expect to live almost four years longer than their counterparts born in Belfast whereas women born in Mid Ulster can expect to live around two-and-a-half-years longer than those born in Belfast.
