ArticleJournal of health monitoring2025
The life expectancy gap: Socioeconomic differences in life expectancy between areas in Germany.
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- Generational variation and life‑course accumulation of social inequalities in all-cause mortality in Germany: a cohort-sequential study.International journal for equity in health · 2026Article
- Sex differences in life-course social disadvantage and all-cause mortality: evidence from a longitudinal study from 1996 to 2023.BMC public health · 2026Article
- The impact of socioeconomic status and lifestyle on cognitive aging and brain health: results from the LIFE-Adult-Study.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2026Article
- Is neighborhood socioeconomic status associated with health behavior in Berlin? Cross-sectional data of the German National Cohort (NAKO).BMC public health · 2026Article
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- Changing socioeconomic inequalities in the incidence and case fatality rates of COVID-19 in Germany, March 2020 through May 2022: an ecological study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- ["Promoting health means promoting democracy": conference report on the 2025 Poverty and Health Congress].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2025Article
- Incidence of type 2 diabetes by socioeconomic deprivation in Germany between 2014 and 2019: an ecological study.BMJ open · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: This study examines differences in life expectancy between Germany's most affluent and most deprived areas. Methods: Nationwide data from the cause-of-death statistics from 2003 to 2022 were linked with official population data to calculate the average life expectancy of females and males in each of Germany's districts. Regression analysis was used to assess the association with the German Index of Socioeconomic Deprivation (GISD) at district level and calculate the life expectancy gap between the most and least deprived areas. Results: In the period 2020 - 2022, life expectancy in the most deprived areas was 4.3 years (females) and 7.2 years (males) lower than in the least deprived areas. In the period 2003 - 2005, this life expectancy gap was still 2.6 and 5.7 years. The widening of the life expectancy gap resulted from a less favourable development of life expectancy in the most deprived areas. It was already evident before and intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusions: The increasing life expectancy gap indicates that health inequality in Germany is increasing. As a result, the development of a strategy to improve health equity is more important than ever to be placed on the policy agenda.
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