An article presented the latest figures on male and female life expectancy at birth and at age 65 for local areas in the United Kingdom, constituent countries, and English regions for 2005-2007. The south west, south east, and east of England continued to have the highest life expectancies at birth, while figures were lowest in Scotland, north-west England and Northern Ireland.
Source: Claudia Wells and Emma Gordon, 'Life expectancy at birth and at age 65 by local areas in the United Kingdom, 2005 07', Health Statistics Quarterly 40, Winter 2008, Office for National Statistics, TSO (0870 600 5522)
Links: Article
Date: 2008-Nov
An article presented the latest figures on male and female health expectancy, at birth and at age 65, for the United Kingdom and its four constituent countries in 2004-2006. (Healthy life expectancy divides total life expectancy into years spent in good or 'not good' health.) On average, males in the United Kingdom could expect to live in good or fairly good health for 68.2 years at birth, and 12.8 years at age 65. The equivalent figures for females were 70.4 and 14.5 years respectively.
Source: Michael Smith, Grace Edgar and Genevieve Groom, 'Health expectancies in the United Kingdom, 2004 06', Health Statistics Quarterly 40, Winter 2008, Office for National Statistics, TSO (0870 600 5522)
Links: Article | ONS press release
Date: 2008-Nov
New statistics showed that life expectancy at birth had reached its highest level on record for both males and females. A newborn baby boy could expect to live 77.2 years and a newborn baby girl 81.5 years if mortality rates remained the same as they were in 2005-2007. Females continued to live longer than males: but the gap had been closing. Children born in the south-east and south-west regions in 2005-07 had the longest life expectancy at birth.
Source: United Kingdom, Interim Life Tables, 1980-82 to 2005-07, Office for National Statistics (0845 601 3034)
Links: Report | ONS press release | Watson Wyatt press release | BBC report | Telegraph report
Date: 2008-Oct
A report examined life expectancy for administrative areas within Scotland over the period 2005-2007. Overall life expectancy at birth had improved over the previous 10 years from 72.3 years to 74.8 years for men, and from 77.9 years to 79.7 years for women.
Source: Life Expectancy for Administrative Areas within Scotland, 2005-2007, General Register Office for Scotland (0131 314 4243)
Links: Report | GROS press release | BBC report
Date: 2008-Sep