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Figures Show 20-Year Gap Between Healthy Life Expectancy Across UK

30-Nov-2016

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Male healthspan varies from 54 years in Tower Hamlets, London, to 71.8 years in Rutland, East Midlands.

Female healthspan varies from 51.4 years in Antrim and Newtown Abbey, Northern Ireland, to 74.6 years in the Orkney Islands.

New Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show that newborn boys can expect to live for 79.2 years and a girl 82.9 years.

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Office for National Statistics (ONS)

The UK's largest independent producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK.

Sarah Caul

Senior health researcher at the ONS.

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