Parsis have a long life expectancy. The average life expectancy at birth for Parsis in Bombay in 2019 was 83 years. In 2020 it dropped to 80 years and in the first quarter of 2021 to 79.3 probably due to the lives lost on account of Covid. (These are tentative figures.)
In 1995 when we first started collating statistics for our Telling Figures section, the average life expectancy for Bombay Parsis was 74 years. Over the course of the intervening 27 years average life expectancy increased by around three plus years per decade. This is more than the global......