Mortality is one way of measuring health, and life expectancy provides a useful age standardised measure of mortality. Since the middle of the 19th century the expectation of life at birth for both females and males has almost doubled. Neither men nor wom...
Errors have been found in local life expectancy figures for four local authority districts in 1998 and nine health authorities in 2000. These errors affect previously published figures on life expectancy at birth for health and local authorities in the Un...
Although life expectancy at birth has increased over the past 30 years among all social classes, there remain inequalities. Given current mortality rates, males born in 1997-99 in England and Wales to parents in the professional group could expect to live...
Males in Great Britain had an expectation of life at birth in 1998 of just under 75 years, while life expectancy for females was five years higher, at just under 80. This gap is around the same size as it was immediately after the Second World War, althou...
Life expectancy is a widely used indicator of the state of the nation's health. Large improvements in expectancy of life at birth have been seen over the past century for both males and females. In 1901 males born in the United Kingdom could expect to liv...
Tables showing life expectancies on a period and cohort basis. Data is provided by age and sex from 1981 to 2058 for the United Kingdom and its constituent countries. The current tables are based on unsmoothed calendar year mortality rates from 1981 to 20...
Period life expectancy results for local areas in the United Kingdom are now available for 2006-08. These figures have been added to existing trend data from 1991-93 to 2005-07.
Results are rolling averages, produced by aggregating the number of deaths...
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Life expectancy at birth results for health areas and local authorities in the United Kingdom from 1991-1993 to 2000-2002 were published in a series of r...
Provides figures on trends in expectation of life by social class in England and Wales over the period 1972 to 2005. These figures update the life expectancy estimates previously published in November 2006, which covered the period 1972-2001. Supplementar...
Life expectancy at birth figures have been calculated for wards in England and Wales based on deaths from 1999-2003. Results are available for persons for all wards. Figures have also been produced for males and females where sex-specific ward-level popul...