13:18 JST, December 24, 2021
Japan’s healthy life expectancy — the span of time in which people can pursue their daily lives without health problems — was 72.68 years for men and 75.38 years for women in 2019, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has announced.
These figures represent an increase of 0.54 years for men and 0.59 years for women from the last survey in 2016.
Healthy life expectations are based on the Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions conducted by the ministry every three