Overview

• Men in Baden-Württemberg averaged 79.64 years of life expectancy at birth from 2021 to 2023, compared with 75.49 years in Sachsen-Anhalt, government figures show.
• Women in Baden-Württemberg outlived those in Sachsen-Anhalt by about two years over the same period.
• Pavel Grigoriev of the Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung reports that male mortality trends are diverging and that Sachsen-Anhalt would need substantially faster gains to close the gap.
• Analysts attribute the regional disparity to differences in GDP, education levels, healthcare access, environmental conditions and population health behaviors.
• Linke MP Janina Böttger has called for targeted social and health interventions to address the measurable life-expectancy inequality in disadvantaged regions.