Born here? You should live to 83
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THE average life expectancy of local citizens increased to 83.13 years last year from 2015’s 82.75 years, the city’s health authority said yesterday.
Females born last year are expected to live to 85.61 years on average, over half a year more than their sisters born in 2015. Males can expect to live for 80.83 years, or four months longer than their brothers born a year earlier, the Shanghai Health and Family Planning Commission said in its annual report.
“It is the first time that the life expectancy of local citizens has exceeded 83 years old and for over a decade that the city has been among the world’s top level,” the commission announced.
It also released other indicators to show Shanghai generally has a healthier population.
The infant mortality rate, for instance, fell to 3.67 per 1,000, from 4.58 in 2015. The maternal death rate also dropped to 5.51 per 100,000, from 6.66 a year earlier, the commission said. Both figures were for local citizens and registered migrant workers.
“It is quite challenging to keep the infant mortality and maternal death rates among the world’s lowest level after China implemented the two-child policy last year,” an official with the commission said.
The average life expectancy of China was 76.34 years old in 2015. The nation aims to increase the lifespan for Chinese to 77 years by 2020 and 79 by 2030.
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