Life expectancy at birth and at 65, Canada and provinces
Life expectancy at birth (exact age 0) and at age 65 from Statistics Canada table 13-10-0114-01 (complete life tables, three-year estimates): the average number of years a person at exact age 0 or 65 would live if the age-specific mortality rates of the three-year reference period (e.g. 2022/2024) applied throughout their life. Covers Canada and the nine provinces published by StatCan — all except Prince Edward Island, which the table excludes by design, and the three territories, which are not published — each split into both sexes, males and females, for every three-year period from 1980/1982 to 2022/2024. The connector derives the female-minus-male life-expectancy gap per province, period and age, and each province's difference from the national value — the standard lenses for mortality-reversal and provincial health-gap analysis. StatCan publishes a new rolling three-year estimate roughly once a year. Values are years with two decimals, straight from the life-table arithmetic, never modelled. Caveat: reference periods overlap (1980/1982, 1981/1983, ...), so consecutive observations share two years of mortality data and are not independent.
- Rows
- 2,580
- Columns
- 7
- Source cadence
- Yearly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 27, 2026
- Theme
- health
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | date | First day of the first year of the three-year reference period (the WDS Datapoint 'refPer' field): 2022-01-01 means the 2022/2024 rolling estimate. Reference periods overlap (1980/1982, 1981/1983, ...), so consecutive observations share two years of mortality data and are not independent. |
| series_id | string | Statistics Canada vector identifier for the series (the WDS 'vectorId', prefixed with 'v', e.g. 'v123325408'). Vectors are the stable public identifiers printed on StatCan tables. |
| series_label | string | Official English series title from WDS Series Info: '<geography>;<exact age>;<sex>;Life expectancy (in years) at age x (ex)', e.g. 'Ontario;0 years;Females;Life expectancy (in years) at age x (ex)'. |
| unit | string | Unit of measure: 'Years' (average remaining years of life at the exact age, as published in the complete life table). |
| value | float | Life expectancy in years as published by Statistics Canada: the average number of years a person at the exact age would live if the age-specific mortality rates of the three-year reference period applied throughout their life. Never imputed; genuinely missing values stay null. |
| sex_gap_years | float | Derived: female minus male life expectancy (years) for the observation's geography, reference period and exact age. Broadcast across the three sex rows of each (geography, date, age) cell; null where either sex's value is missing. |
| vs_national_years | float | Derived: the observation's life expectancy minus the Canada value for the same reference period, sex and exact age (years). 0.0 on Canada rows; positive means the province outlives the national average. |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| date | series_id | series_label | unit | value | sex_gap_years | vs_national_years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-01-01 | v123325408 | Canada;0 years;Both sexes;Life expectancy (in years) at age x (ex) | Years | 75.43 | 7.11 | 0 |
| 1981-01-01 | v123325408 | Canada;0 years;Both sexes;Life expectancy (in years) at age x (ex) | Years | 75.76 | 7.01 | 0 |
| 1982-01-01 | v123325408 | Canada;0 years;Both sexes;Life expectancy (in years) at age x (ex) | Years | 76.05 | 6.9 | 0 |
| 1983-01-01 | v123325408 | Canada;0 years;Both sexes;Life expectancy (in years) at age x (ex) | Years | 76.26 | 6.84 | 0 |
| 1984-01-01 | v123325408 | Canada;0 years;Both sexes;Life expectancy (in years) at age x (ex) | Years | 76.4 | 6.74 | 0 |
| 1985-01-01 | v123325408 | Canada;0 years;Both sexes;Life expectancy (in years) at age x (ex) | Years | 76.56 | 6.7 | 0 |
| 1986-01-01 | v123325408 | Canada;0 years;Both sexes;Life expectancy (in years) at age x (ex) | Years | 76.74 | 6.65 | 0 |
| 1987-01-01 | v123325408 | Canada;0 years;Both sexes;Life expectancy (in years) at age x (ex) | Years | 76.97 | 6.62 | 0 |
| 1988-01-01 | v123325408 | Canada;0 years;Both sexes;Life expectancy (in years) at age x (ex) | Years | 77.2 | 6.55 | 0 |
| 1989-01-01 | v123325408 | Canada;0 years;Both sexes;Life expectancy (in years) at age x (ex) | Years | 77.45 | 6.42 | 0 |
Profiled Sep 27, 2026 from snapshot 20260927T090240Z-f285479db92a
Measured- Completeness
- 100%
- Rows
- 2,580
- Columns
- 7
- Columns with gaps
- 0
| Column | Missing | Distinct | Range | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| datedate | 0% | 47 | Jan 1, 1980 → Jan 1, 2022 | — |
| series_idvarchar | 0% | 61 | — |
|
| series_labelvarchar | 0% | 66 | — |
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| unitvarchar | 0% | 1 | — |
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| valuedouble | 0% | 1,535 | 13.98 → 84.85median 46.94 | 50 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| sex_gap_yearsdouble | 0% | 752 | 2.27 → 8.05median 4.29 | 51 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| vs_national_yearsdouble | 0% | 938 | -2.98 → 1.4median -0.11 | 52 outside 1st–99th percentile |
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ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/statcan_life_tables/ca_life_expectancy_provincial").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
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for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
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Statistics Canada — Life Tables. (2026). Life expectancy at birth and at 65, Canada and provinces [Data set, snapshot 20260927T090240Z-f285479db92a, sha256 f285479db92a]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-27, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/statcan_life_tables/ca_life_expectancy_provincial?snapshot=20260927T090240Z-f285479db92a
@misc{dz_statcan_life_tables_ca_life_expectancy_p_f285479d,
title = {{Life expectancy at birth and at 65, Canada and provinces}},
author = {{Statistics Canada — Life Tables}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/statcan_life_tables/ca_life_expectancy_provincial?snapshot=20260927T090240Z-f285479db92a}},
note = {Snapshot 20260927T090240Z-f285479db92a, sha256 f285479db92a7a4000c011429475ff629c00080ccab8dc85a8c7e8f0253da993; accessed 2026-09-27}
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