New Zealand · Healthy Life Expectancy at Birth (HALE)

70.0 years2021

Unit: years. Publisher measure: Healthy life expectancy (HALE) at birth (years).

Healthy life expectancy at birth for the country population, both sexes: equivalent years in full health under reference-year mortality and morbidity.

Measurement basis: WHO modelled healthy life expectancy estimates using the Sullivan method with morbidity adjustment.

Reference-period cadence: annual.

Source update cadence: biennial. This does not establish a publication date for an individual reading.

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World Health Organization (Global Health Observatory); retrieved 2026-09-07. Retrieval time is separate from an official publisher release vintage.

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Reported estimates and uncertainty · 22 rows

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Reported estimates and independently qualified uncertainty endpoints
CountryYearReadingLower endpointUpper endpointPublisher note
New Zealand200067.267892466.4619339567.97766657
New Zealand200167.2315385166.5059157668.04503751
New Zealand200267.3894396566.7304236668.21221853
New Zealand200367.7000557266.9959598168.47158659
New Zealand200467.8004865567.092490968.69411904
New Zealand200568.3607469667.6968995169.17315124
New Zealand200668.3633538667.585712969.14789505
New Zealand200768.4821673867.7944390569.31863425
New Zealand200868.6981668967.8168247269.42676723
New Zealand200968.9186406768.2676290469.73637317
New Zealand201069.1861399668.3891887870.00220087
New Zealand201169.045953668.4220548869.66587952
New Zealand201269.266689668.4927723270.05084567
New Zealand201369.4404386768.6760052570.17517317
New Zealand201469.2968634268.6765875570.11153067
New Zealand201569.3742105968.5407082670.17268384
New Zealand201669.6677590968.9996571970.4635386
New Zealand201769.2721547968.4953949770.08962356
New Zealand201869.7069293869.0068669770.36639958
New Zealand201969.7449962268.9213636870.64304698
New Zealand202070.1941390769.4166746771.03223474
New Zealand202169.9832168969.2597732970.89529157

One row per country, indicator and year, with raw values, source links and reuse notices. Thresholds have an empty numeric value and separate number/operator fields; value_kind distinguishes upper bounds from absent readings.