JAMMU, Oct 26:Jammu and Kashmir has surpassed Kerala as the state with the highest life expectancy in India for all ages, barring life expectancy at birth, according to the latest data released on October 19, 2016, by the Registrar General of India (RGI), custodian of census data.
The RGI publishes state level life expectancy– as the estimate of the average number of additional years that a person of a given age can expect to live–data for different ages: 0 (at birth), 1, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70. Being the state with the highest life expectancy at birth in India, Kerala used to be the leader in almost all these age categories till 2010. (Agencies)
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