Disability- free life expectancy in Egypt

Abstract EN

In Egypt, it has been observed that in the last few decades life expectancy has increased noticeably and is expected to keep rising in the next few decades.

however, there is not enough evidence to help us decide whether the additional years would be lived in good health or otherwise.

therefore, the paper aims to estimate the disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) in Egypt according to sex, age, disability's level of severity and domain of disability, by using the national data of "household observatory survey in Egypt, 2016, 13 round" and applied Sullivan method.

the survey applied the short set of questions on functional difficulties that have been suggested by UN-WG.

the results revealed that, according to the level of "any-disability", the DFLE for men and women population is 85% and 82% of the total life expectancy, respectively.

in absence of severe and complete disability, men and women live 95% of their lifetime without suffering from this level of disability.

as one grows older (men and women), the ratio of the disability-free period she or he is expected to live to her/his total lifetime diminishes rapidly.

the ratios of the expected life with functional difficulties in vision and mobility to total life span are the highest and the lowest in the instance of functional limitations in communication.