Key Messages
Overall
By Income Group
Technical Notes
Key Messages
- Life expectancy in Simcoe Muskoka is lower than the provincial average.
- Females have a higher life expectancy than males, and this gap widens when income is considered.
Overall
- Life expectancy at birth is a summary measure that describes the average number of years a newborn baby can be expected to live if death rates do not change. For people already living, life expectancy is dependent on their current age, and will vary.
- For the years 2015 to 2017, life expectancy at birth for Simcoe Muskoka was 79.7 years for males and 83.4 years for females. In comparison, life expectancy at birth for Ontario was 80.5 years for males and 84.6 years for females.
- Life expectancy at birth in Simcoe Muskoka has been consistently lower than the provincial average.
By Income Group
- Both male and female infants born into higher income groups have significantly higher life expectancy at birth than those born into lower income groups.
- There is a gap of 3.1 years between females in the highest income group with a life expectancy at birth of 84.7 years (84.1, 85.3) and those born into the lowest income group at 81.5 years (80.1, 82.3).
- This gap grows to nearly six years (5.8) in males, from a life expectancy at birth of 81.6 years (81.0, 82.2) in males born in the highest income group to 75.8 years (75.0, 76.7) in the low income group.
Technical Notes
The Census sorts the Canadian population living in private households based on their after-tax economic family income. The population is then divided into ten equal groups or deciles. The economic family income decile group provides a rough ranking of the economic situation of a person based on his or her relative position in the Canadian distribution of the adjusted after-tax income of economic families for all persons in private households.
The income groupings on this page are based on the proportion of the Simcoe Muskoka population in a dissemination area (DA) that fell within the bottom half of the Canadian distribution of economic family income deciles.
Provincial life expectancy data was acquired directly from Statistics Canada CANSIM database: Table 13-10-0389-01 Life expectancy, at birth and at age 65.
Page Last Modified: July 12, 2023