Women in Tayside and Fife can expect to live well into their 80s, according to the Office of National Statistics.
Life expectancy continues to rise for those living in Angus, Dundee, Perth and Kinross and Fife, with a 65-year-old woman now reckoned to live on for around 20 years.
Pension-age men trail slightly, with the statistics showing an average of a further 17 or 18 years of life remaining.
The figures, revealed annually by the Office of National Statistics, also show that at birth the life expectancy for a Dundee male is 74, some four years less than the UK average.
The equivalent figure is 76 in Fife and 77 and 78 in Angus and Perth and Kinross, respectively.
Women have an at-birth life expectancy of 80 in Dundee and Fife, while it is 81 in Angus and 82 in Perth and Kinross.
All the figures, which are taken using a three-year average, show a rise of around three of four years on the situation found during the early 1990s.
Life expectancy was highest in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea, while people died youngest in Glasgow.
Many other areas of the west of Scotland were also shown to be afflicted by short life expectancy.
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