Living longer in Mid Ulster area

The Department’s Health Inequalities Report 2020 highlights how life expectancy can vary across the Council district electoral area.

The report also shows how, in general, life expectancy is lower for men than it is for women.

At birth, across Northern Ireland, the average male life expectancy in 2016-18 is 78.7 years.

In Mid Ulster, six of the Council’s seven districts have a higher average male life expectancy than the Northern Ireland average.

They are: Carntogher (80.9 years); Clogher Valley (79.5 years); Dungannon (79 years); Magherafelt (80 years); Moyola (80.3 years) and Torrent (79.3 years).

However, the report notes that men in Cookstown are on average, expected to live 1.3 years less than the Northern Ireland average of 78.7 years, with an average life expectancy at birth in 2016-18 of 77.6 years.

It is a similar picture for the women of Mid Ulster, with four of the Council’s seven districts boasting female life expectancy averages above the Northern Ireland average of 82.4 years

Carntogher (85.4 years), Clogher Valley (82.7); Magherafelt (83.2 years) and Moyola (82.9 years) all have higher female life expectancy at birth averages than the Northern Ireland average.

Cookstown (82.3 years) and Torrent (82.1 years) are both just slightly below the Northern Ireland average for female life expectancy at birth.

However, Dungannon women have, on average, a life expectancy at birth of 81.4 years, according to the report.

This is one year less than the average female in Northern Ireland.

Much like the rest of Northern Ireland, deprivation also has a role to play in life expectancy within Mid Ulster District Council.

The average life expectancy of the Council’s areas most deprived female residents at birth in 2016-18 is 82.5 according to the report, with the average life expectancy of the Council’s female population, 82.7 years.

Females in the most deprived areas can expect, on average to live 0.2 years less than the average female in the district. This figure is 0.1 years higher than the Northern Ireland average for females.

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