Table 3.

Healthy life expectancies at age 50 by race/ethnicity and sex

	Males				Females
	TLE	DFLE	DLE	%dfle/tle	TLE	DFLE	DLE	%dfle/tle
Non-Hispanic whites	28.8 (28.72–28.90)	25.0 (24.88–25.14)	3.8 (3.69–3.91)	86.8 (86.44–87.17)	33.0 (32.88–33.07)	27.0 (26.85–27.10)	6.0 (5.88–6.12)	81.8 (81.47–82.15)
Non-Hispanic blacks	25.4 (25.18–25.72)	20.2 (19.88–20.55)	5.2 (4.96–5.51)	79.4 (78.37–80.49)	30.0 (29.74–30.24)	21.5 (21.19–21.77)	8.5 (8.22–8.79)	71.6 (70.75–72.51)
Hispanics	30.7 (30.33–31.08)	24.2 (23.50–24.86)	6.5 (5.88–7.17)	78.8 (76.69–80.82)	34.4 (34.04–34.72)	24.9 (24.34–25.40)	9.5 (9.00–10.03)	72.3 (70.89–73.77)
U.S.-Born Hispanics	29.0 (28.51–29.49)	22.7 (21.85–23.58)	6.3 (5.41–7.16)	78.3 (75.40–81.26)	32.5 (32.06–33.04)	24.9 (24.20–25.51)	7.7 (7.03–8.36)	76.4 (74.44–78.30)
Foreign-born Hispanics	32.0 (31.54–32.54)	25.5 (24.80–26.19)	6.5 (5.85–7.24)	79.6 (77.49–81.65)	35.7 (35.34–36.15)	24.6 (23.85–25.42)	11.1 (10.34–11.88)	68.9 (66.82–71.03)

Sources Health and Retirement Study, 1998–2008, and National Health Interview Survey—Longitudinal Mortality Follow up, 1989–2006. The 95 % confidence interval for each estimate is provided in parenthesis beside the estimate

TLE total life expectancy, DFLE disability-free life expectancy, DLE disabled life expectancy, %dfl/tle percent of life expectancy disabled