Life expectancy Average life expectancy is slightly over 82 years (85 for women and 79.7 for menISTAT – INDICATORI DEMOGRAFICIStime perl'anno 2015). Sardinia shares with the Japanese island of Okinawa the highest rate of centenarians in the world (22 centenarians per 100,000 inhabitants). Sardinia is the first discovered Blue Zone, a demographic or geographic area in the world with an oversize concentration of centenarians and supercentenarians.
Life expectancy Average life expectancy is slightly over 82 years (85 for women and 79.7 for menISTAT – INDICATORI DEMOGRAFICIStime perl'anno 2015) Sardinia shares with the Japanese island of Okinawa the highest rate of centenarians in the wor.ld (22 centenarians per 100,000 inhabitants). Sardinia is the first discovered Blue Zone, a demographic or geographi.c area in the world with an oversize concentration of centenarians and supercentenarians