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. 2021 Nov 16;118(46):e2115273118.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2115273118.

Best-practice healthy life expectancy vs. life expectancy: Catching up or lagging behind?

Iñaki Permanyer  1   2 , Sergi Trias-Llimós  3 , Jeroen J A Spijker  3
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Best-practice healthy life expectancy vs. life expectancy: Catching up or lagging behind?

Iñaki Permanyer et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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The authors declare no competing interest.

Figures

Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
BPLE (Top) and BPHLE (Bottom) for females and males between 1990 and 2019 (excluding Kuwait, San Marino, and Andorra). Source is authors’ elaboration based on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 data (9, 11).
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.
Fraction of life expectancy spent with disability for Iceland, Japan, Singapore, and Switzerland in 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2019. Source is authors’ elaboration based on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 data (9, 11).
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  • Demographic perspectives on the rise of longevity.
    Vaupel JW, Villavicencio F, Bergeron-Boucher MP. Vaupel JW, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Mar 2;118(9):e2019536118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2019536118. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021. PMID: 33571137 Free PMC article.

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