GCHSCP Demographics and Needs Profile

Table 17 below shows Life Expectancy at birth for the three HSCP localities, Glasgow and Scotland and Healthy Life Expectancy at birth and aged 65 for Glasgow and Scotland.

Tables 18a-c show details of deaths and early deaths from various causes including cancer, coronary heart disease and all causes by age-band as well as those attributed to alcohol, drug use, smoking, homelessness and suicide, for Glasgow and Scotland. Some indicators are available at HSCP locality level.

Table 17. Life Expectancy and Healthy Life Expectancy* Estimates by Area/HSCP Locality

^{_{Source: 1. Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) (a) 2017 to 21 Public Health Scotland/NRS (b) 2019 to 21 NRS. 2. NRS Healthy Life Expectancy 2019 to 2021.          © Crown copyright 2022}}

_{Notes: *Healthy Life Expectancy is the number of years a person expects to live in good health, from the age noted.}

Key Points (Table 17)

1. On average, a Glasgow woman is expected to live to 78.0 years from birth - 5.0 years longer than a Glasgow man (73.0 years). Life Expectancy for males and females from birth is similar in North West (M 73.8; F 78.8) and South localities (M 73.9; F 78.8) and higher than those for the North East locality (M 71.8; F 77.2). Life Expectancy for Glasgow males from birth (73.0) is 3.6 years lower than for Scotland males (76.6). For Glasgow females (78.0) it is 2.8 years lower than for Scotland females (80.8).
2. Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE) from birth - the number of years a person can expect to live in good health from birth - is 1.2 years higher for Glasgow females (56.0) than males (54.8). Healthy Life Expectancy from birth is 5.6 years lower for Glasgow males (54.8) than Scotland males (60.4) and 5.1 years lower for Glasgow females (56.0) than Scotland females (61.1).
3. Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE) from age 65 - the number of years a person can expect to live in good health from age 65 - is 2.7 years higher for Glasgow females (9.3) than males (6.6). Healthy Life Expectancy from age 65 is 3.0 years lower for Glasgow males (6.6) than Scotland males (9.6) and 1.7 years lower for Glasgow females (9.3) than Scotland females (11.0).

Tables 18a-c. Deaths and Early Deaths by Cause; Drug, Alcohol, Smoking and Homelessness Related Deaths; Deaths from Suicides

Table 18a. Deaths and Early Deaths by Cause and Area/HSCP Locality

^{_{Source: 1. Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) (a)  2017 to 2021 NRS crude rate per 100,000; (b) 2019 to 2021 NRS and ISD age/sex standardised rate per 100,000; (c) 2019 to 2021 NRS and ISD age/sex standardised rate per 100,000. 2. Adapted from Public Health Scotland (PHS) - Core Suite of Integration Indicators 2022 (NRS 2020 age standardised rate per 100,000 <75). Public Health Scotland data licensed under the Open Government Licence.         © Crown Copyright 2022}}

Key Points (Table 18a)

1. All the death rates listed in Table 18a. are higher for Glasgow than for Scotland. The premature mortality rate of deaths of people under 75 years from all causes is 45% higher for Glasgow (651.2 per 100,000 population) than Scotland (449.8 per 100,000 population).

2. A similar differential is evident in death rates for Glasgow and Scotland from coronary heart disease (CHD) in under 75s and lung cancer. The Glasgow CHD death rate of 74.6 per 100,000 people is 42% higher than the Scotland rate of 52.6 deaths per 100,000 and the Glasgow lung cancer death rate of 138.3 per 100,000 is 55% higher than the Scotland rate of 89.1.

Table 18b. Drug, Alcohol, Smoking and Homelessness Related Deaths by Area

^{_{Source: 1. NRS Drug-related Deaths in Scotland 2021. 2. Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) (a) 2017 to 2021 NRS and ISD (b) 2017 to 2018 NRS and ISD. 3. NRS Homeless Deaths 2021 (experimental statistics) . © Crown Copyright 2022}}

Key Points (Table 18b)

1. All death rates from drugs, alcohol, smoking and homelessness in Table 18b. are higher for Glasgow than for Scotland.
2. The average annual drug related deaths rate for Glasgow of 44.4 per 100,000 population is almost double the Scotland rate of 22.9 per 100,000 population. In 2021 there were 311 drug related deaths in Glasgow, a higher number than the annual average (2017-2021) of 271, with more than two-thirds of these being deaths of males (212 - 68.2%). The 2021 drug deaths profile by gender was similar for Scotland.
3. For Glasgow, the rate of alcohol specific deaths for males of 47.8 per 100,000 population is more than three times the rate for females of 15.8 per 100,000. For Scotland, both alcohol specific male and female death rates are lower than their respective Glasgow rates with the male rate of 29.4 per 100,000 people being more than twice the female rate of 12.8 per 100,000. Overall, the death rate for all people specific to alcohol is more than 50% higher in Glasgow (31.8 per 100,000 population) than Scotland (21.1).
4. The Glasgow rate of smoking attributable deaths of 508.9 per 100,000 population is more than 50% higher than the Scotland rate of 327.8 per 100,000.
5. The Glasgow rate of homeless deaths of 118.6 per million is almost twice the rate for Scotland of 60.3 per million people. Figures for Scotland indicate that homeless deaths are more prevalent among males (99.1 per million) than females (22.9 per million).

Table 18c. Deaths from Suicide by Area

^{_{Source: Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) (a)  2017 to 2021 NRS crude rate per 100,000; (b) 2017 to 2021 NRS age/sex standardised rate per 100,000.          © Crown Copyright 2022}}

Key Points (Table 18c)

1. All suicide rates in Table 18c. are higher for Glasgow than for Scotland.
2. The rate of deaths from suicide in young people is 11.3 per 100,000 people aged 11 to 25 for Glasgow, slightly more than the 11.1 per 100,000 for Scotland.
3. The suicide rate (number of people per 100,000 population) for males is around three times the rate for females both for Glasgow (males 24.1; females 8.3) and for Scotland overall (males 21.2; females 7.1).
4. Within Glasgow, the North East locality has the highest all person suicide rate of 18.2 per 100,000 people, followed by 15.9 for North West and 15.3 for South.