Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – Most people who were 85 years of age or older live in the southwest of Stuttgart: There are 19,000 men and women, as the State Statistical Office announced on Thursday. At the end of 2021 there were a total of 337,900 people in this age group in the southwest, almost two thirds of whom were women. The number of people aged 85 and older has thus reached a high since the state was founded in 1952 and has almost quintupled since 1980 alone.
According to the statisticians, there are several reasons for the increase in the elderly. On the one hand, this is due to the age structure of the population and, on the other hand, to the constantly increasing life expectancy itself: a newborn boy can expect an average life expectancy of almost 80 years today, a newborn girl even a good 84 years. This means that the life expectancy of newborns is almost ten years higher for women and a good eleven years higher for men than at the beginning of the 1970s.
