text: The development of life expectancy and causes of lower mortality in the EU are summarised each year 
  by the OECD/EU in their joint overview ‘Health at a glance’.190 
  
  *‘Steady and substantial reductions in mortality rates from IHD (Ischaemic heart diseases), strokes and*
  *other circulatory diseases were the main driver of increases in life expectancy in previous decades, but*
  *these reductions have slowed down over the past five to ten years in several Western European*
  *countries (e.g. France, Germany and the United Kingdom). This has contributed to the slowdown in life*
  *expectancy improvements.’*(OECD/The King’s Fund, 2020) 191 
  
  The overview includes the**life expectancy of persons at birth and being 65 years old**, in the EU plus 
  neighbouring countries that report to the EU. The geographical disparities of the life expectancy repeats; 
  
  European Agency for Safety and Health at Work – EU-OSHA 
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