New data from the Office for National Statistics shows that people born in the UK today are expected to live longer than previous generations. However, projected life expectancy for children born in ...

The number of years people in the UK spend in good health is falling, according to a new report. Over the past decade healthy life expectancy (HLE) has dropped by around two years to just under 61 for ...

So, some cheerful news! Life expectancy in the UK just fell to its lowest level in a decade. New ONS data shows life expectancy at birth in 2020 to 2022 was 78.6 years for males and 82.6 years for ...

Life expectancy in the UK has fallen for both males and females, with the reduction driven mainly by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. A boy born between 2020 and 2022 is expected to live until ...

Tim Harford investigates a fall in healthy life expectancy, the spiralling costs of HS2, the effect of government VAT cuts ...

Healthy life expectancy in Britain is in "crisis" with people in the country’s poorest areas now likely to fall into ill ...