Sentences with phrase «far higher life expectancy»

Lord Bannatyne said in this case that life expectancy was a «significant factor» in assessing compensation, noting that Mr McCarn's case should be distinguished from the Kelly v Upper Clyde Shipbuilders case of 2012, due to the fact he had a far higher life expectancy (he was expected to live a further 18 years, by contrast to 4 years in Kelly) and therefore the family left behind had been deprived of society and guidance for a longer period of time.

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First of all, Japan is not an ageing society due to their birth rate (which is actually on the rise either way, from 1.26 in 2005 to 1.5 in 2016), but due to their high life expectancy which itself is a byproduct of a culture that generally respects the elderly far more than western countries do.

While higher wageworkers have always had a higher life expectancy, the gap is far larger today than it was just half a century ago.

Of course, these people would also have eaten far better than the average person, been preserved from the fatal forms of manual labour and have had better «medical» care than the average person, so I assume that a life expectancy of 44 for women and 49 for men is a titch on the high side.

In Recommendation 1 of its final report, the COAG Reform Council identifies the «higher rates of obesity among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as an area that requires further attention from COAG as part of its efforts to achieve life expectancy equality».