Life - Articles - Highest and lowest male and female life expectancy

 Male life expectancy has a gap of 10.3 years between Hart (83.7 years) and Blackpool (73.4 years), while the gap for women is 7.5 years between Kensington & Chelsea (86.3 years) and Blaenau Gwent (78.9 years) sharp regional disparities in longevity within the separate nations and regions.

 In all English regions, Northern Ireland and Wales, life expectancy at birth in 2020 to 2022 was lower than in 2017 to 2019, as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic led to increased mortality in 2020 and 2021. These are 'period' life expectancy figures that look at past mortality experience and not projections of future likely life expectancy numbers.

 Stephen Lowe, group communications director at retirement specialist Just Group, commented: “The ONS data reveals the sharp geographic variations in life expectancy at birth throughout the UK. Of the ten local areas with the highest life expectancy, all 10 were in the South for females and nine were for men.

 “It demonstrates the importance on our health of the communities and socio-economic circumstances of where people grow up and live from education and housing through to working conditions. People living in wealthier areas are more likely to live longer lives with key risk factors like smoking and obesity typically higher among more deprived demographics.

 “It's important that individuals don't fixate on average life expectancy figures for retirement planning because the range of possible outcomes are so wide and the longer you live, the longer you are expected to live. Retirees must prepare for living long lives, living to around average age, or dying sooner. All three are realistic possibilities that need to be covered when retirement planning."

 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/life-expectancy-for-local-areas-of-the-uk-between-2001-to-2003-and-2020-to-2022--2