Under 44? Get ready to live forever!
A look at the latest UK life expectancy at 65 statistics - annual increase has been growing since 1960
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UK life expectancy figures expose geographical inequalities
Evening Standard - 26-Jan-2024Pandemic takes toll, rural and deprived areas see biggest life expectancy drops
Young adults face undiagnosed hypertension risk
BBC - 28-Apr-2023Experts encourage regular blood pressure checks for all adults to prevent long-term harm
Deaths from excessive alcohol intake surged in the UK during Covid pandemic
BBC - 08-Dec-2022A 27% rise in alcohol-related deaths was reported during 2019-21, with more men affected than women
Longevity gap differs greatly between the rich and poor areas of England
BBC - 13-Oct-2021Report finds alarming fall in life expectancy even before COVID pandemic - calls for better policies
Covid-19 hit hardest in men, cutting their life expectancy by over an year
BBC - 23-Sep-2021Life expectancy will recover in the future, but with a 'slower growth'
Experimental national estimates of life expectancy and mortality based on ethnicity
Guardian - 26-Jul-2021Compared to blacks and Asians, whites and mixed groups had lower life expectancy
UK recorded more deaths than births for first time in 40 years
BBC - 25-Jun-2021Covid may not be the only reason; fewer births and older population also fuel death rates
Working 55+ hours a week killed 745,000 people a year
BBC - 17-May-2021Working overtime, only to die early - long working hours may increase your risk of stroke & heart disease
Life expectancy reduces by nearly 3 years
BBC - 02-Dec-2019The goal to live more than 100 years seems to be slowly drifting away
Life expectancy increase reflected in number of older people in society
BBC - 19-Nov-2019Even without life extension experts predict increasingly longer lives
The lowest mortality levels ever recorded
LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science) - 16-Oct-2019Good news – recent quarterly statistics suggest that UK life expectancy is no longer stalled
Computers and robots could automate 1.5 million jobs
BBC - 25-Mar-2019Percentage of workers in primary industry massively reduced in last century - not necessarily a bad thing
UK among worst for life expectancy rises
BBC - 07-Aug-2018Life expectancy rises in the UK have stagnated due to still unknown reasons
More elderly are dying after falls as care crisis deepens
Guardian - 07-Apr-2018Number of deaths in men over 85 has risen by 177%. Greater increase than the number of people re...
Deprivation reduces life expectancy by nearly a decade
Independent - 01-Mar-2018Office for National Statistics says life expectancy of most deprived males is 73.9 years. Compar...
8 things more likely to kill you in 1970s
BBC - 04-Feb-2018Eight things more likely to kill you in 1970s Britain than today. 1. Winter 2. The workplace 3...
Life expectancy plummets in parts of UK
Independent - 18-Jan-2018By 2041, women will live to 86.2 years and men 83.4 years. Decrease of almost a whole year compa...
Antibiotic resistance expected to reduce life expectancy
Telegraph - 01-Dec-2017Antibiotic resistance has caused a fall in life expectancy for the first time, the Office for Nat...
Glasgow has UK's highest death rate
Belfast Telegraph - 27-Nov-2017Glasgow has topped the list of places with the highest mortality rate in the UK, new data has rev...
10 charts that show why sleep is so important
BBC - 28-Oct-2017Both short and long sleepers are more likely to live shorter lives. Not enough sleep associated...
UK population to pass 70m in 2029
BBC - 26-Oct-2017According to the Office for National Statistics the UK's population is set to exceed 70 million i...
Centenarians are fastest growing age group in UK
Guardian - 27-Sep-2017Centenarians are the fastest growing age group in the UK, with the number of 100-year-olds almost...
Gap between men's and women's life expectancy no longer closing
Telegraph - 27-Sep-2017The gap has narrowed every year for the past decade. Between 2010 to 2012 and 2014 to 2016, the...
How death has changed over 100 years in Britain
Guardian - 18-Sep-2017Some interesting graphs on distribution of deaths by age. In 1915 one in ten deaths occurred amo...
Figures Show 20-Year Gap Between Healthy Life Expectancy Across UK
Huffington Post - 30-Nov-2016Male healthspan varies from 54 years in Tower Hamlets, London, to 71.8 years in Rutland, East Mid...
Record number of centenarians in UK
BBC - 29-Sep-2016Number of people aged 100, or over, has quadrupled over the last two decades. Also a 6-fold incr...
Life expectancy: Is the party over?
BBC - 11-Dec-2015Higher than expected death rates among older people in 2012 and 2013. Last year, flu vaccination...
Men ‘catching up’ on life expectancy
BBC - 30-Apr-2015Closing the gap on women. By 2030 men will be living 85.7 years on average compare to 79.5 in 201...
Higher death rate ‘driven by flu’
BBC - 04-Feb-2015
UK centenarian numbers on the rise
BBC - 25-Sep-2014The number of centenarians in the UK has more than quadrupled in the past 30 years, according to ...
