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Health state life expectancy estimates for Middle layer Super Output Areas, England and Wales: 2019 to 2023
What's in the bulletin?
- In England, median healthy life expectancy (HLE) at birth for males was 65.3 years; there was a gap of more than 13 years between the areas at the lowest 10% (57.1 years) and highest 10% (71.0 years) of HLE.
- In England, median HLE at birth for females was 66.8 years; there was a gap of 14 years between the areas at the lowest 10% (58.6 years) and highest 10% (72.6 years) of HLE.
- In Wales, median HLE at birth for males was 62.5 years; there was a gap of more than 12 years between the areas at the lowest 10% (56.6 years) and highest 10% (68.8 years) of HLE.
Healthy life expectancy, UK: between 2011 to 2013 and 2022 to 2024
What's in the bulletin?
- Males in the UK could expect to spend 60.7 years (77% of life) in "good" general health, compared with 60.9 years (73%) for females; these were decreases of 1.8 and 2.5 years, respectively, compared with the last non-overlapping period (2019 to 2021).
- Despite modest increases in life expectancy since 2019 to 2021, healthy life expectancy (HLE) at birth in the UK, for both males and females, decreased to its lowest level since our time series began in 2011 to 2013.
- England continued to have the highest HLE at birth among UK constituent countries for both males (60.9 years) and females (61.3 years); Scotland had the lowest for males (59.1 years) and Wales had the lowest for females (58.5 years).
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