The stark gap in life expectancy in Britain was today revealed in an interactive map that reveals how life expectancy varies depending on where you live.
Figures show how children born in deprived areas of England, Scotland and Wales could die up to 13 years earlier than young people in more prosperous districts.
Girls born in Kensington and Chelsea between 2021 and 2023 are expected to live to be 86, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The children’s longevity is placed in Hart, Hampshire, where they are expected to reach 83 years.
But at the other end of the scale, boys in Blackpool are only expected to live to be 73, while girls in Glasgow are only expected to live to be 78.
ONS data also shows that average life expectancy in all three countries remained lower than before the pandemic.
Slough saw the biggest drop among boys, with Na h-Eileanan Siar, from the Outer Hebrides, taking the title among girls.
Statisticians suggested that Covid could be behind the trend of falling life expectancy.
He The data also covers the period when Britain was plunged into a cost of living crisis, which experts say increases the risk of malnutrition due to high food and energy prices.
The estimates are based on period life expectancy, a hypothetical measure that assumes the death rate between 2020 and 2022 applies over the course of a person’s life.
Calculating male and female rates separately, it uses death records in the period 2021 to 2023 for each age group, the probability of death and the number of surviving people in each group.
According to analysts, boys and girls born in England are expected to live longer, with 79.11 years for men and 83.05 years for women.
Among the three countries, Scotland ranked lowest at 76.79 years for men and 80.77 years for women.
The figures stood at 78.04 and 81.98 respectively in Wales.
The ONS noted that children born between 2021 and 2023 will not necessarily live a shorter life than those born in previous years. If mortality rates improve, then life expectancy will increase, he added.
According to local authorities, a child born in Hart can expect to reach the age of 83 (83.33), the longest male life expectancy on record.
Girls born in Kensington and Chelsea (pictured) between 2021 and 2023 are expected to live to be 86, according to the Office for National Statistics.
However, the Glasgow girls (pictured) are only expected to live to be 78 years old.
Meanwhile, one born in Blackpool will probably only live to age 73 (73.14), a gap of more than a decade.
Uttlesford in Essex came second with 82.96, and Wokingham third with 82.54.
Meanwhile, a girl born in Kensington and Chelsea should live to be 86 (86.46), but her Glasgow peers will probably only live to be 78.26, a difference of just over eight years.
There remain sharp divisions between the north and the south. The ten boroughs with the highest life expectancy in the south of England fell among both men and women.
Among the men with the lowest life expectancy, six were in Scotland, three in the north of England and one in Wales.
Meanwhile, seven in ten areas with the lowest female life expectancy are in Scotland.
Blackpool and Knowsley, in the north of England, and Blaenau Gwent, in Wales, completed the ten.
Statisticians blamed the drop in life expectancy, compared to before the pandemic, on Covid and the increase in mortality observed in 2020 and 2021.
According to local authorities, a child born in Hart can expect to turn 83 years old. Pictured, Hartley at Hart
But at the other end of the scale, the Blackpool children (pictured) are only expected to turn 73.
Covid is believed to have further widened inequalities.
Experts fear the pandemic has exacerbated problems related to health inequality, with some attributing this to health cuts and austerity.
the dThe data also covers the period when Britain was plunged into a cost of living crisis.
Researchers have warned that this forces people in poorer households to choose between heat and food and manage the stress of debt, all of which can worsen long-term health.
Earlier this year, research suggested that life expectancy around the world will increase by almost five years by 2050, with the average man predicted to live to be 76 and women to be over 80.
Global average life expectancy is projected to increase to around 78.1 years in 2050, an increase of 4.5 years. The Lancet public health study also found.
At the time, experts said the trend was largely driven by public health measures that prevented and improved survival rates from diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, nutritional diseases, and maternal and neonatal infections.
Commentators also said the figures present an “immense opportunity” to “get ahead of the rise in metabolic and dietary risk factors” such as high blood pressure and BMI.
At 115, Ethel Caterham, from Surrey, is the oldest living person in the UK following the death of 112-year-old Mollie Walker on January 22, 2022.
The oldest living person in the world is now the Japanese Tomiko Itooka, who was born on May 23, 1908 and is 116 years old.
The oldest living person in the world is now the Japanese Tomiko Itooka, who was born on May 23, 1908 and is 116 years old.
At 115, Ethel Caterham, from Surrey, is the oldest living person in the UK following the death of 112-year-old Mollie Walker on January 22, 2022.
The title of the oldest person who has ever lived belongs to Frenchwoman Jeanne Louise Calment, whose life spanned 122 years and 164 days.
Mrs Caterham, who died in 1997, attributed her longevity to “I never argue with anyone, I listen and do what I like”.
Experts who have studied centenarians agree.
Physical activity, faith, love, companionship and a sense of purpose form the backbone of so-called “Blue Zones,” or areas of the world where people typically live to be 100 or older.
Maintaining an active lifestyle, even just walking around town every day, has been shown to improve longevity.
Companionship has been shown to have an equally positive effect on a person’s life expectancy, and studies consistently show that loneliness is toxic.