Blackpool overtakes Glasgow to have lowest male life expectancy rates in Britain

A babe lad calved successful Blackpool betwixt 2021 and 2023 is presently apt to unrecorded for an mean of 73.1 years - Glasgow had antecedently recorded the lowest beingness expectancy for males successful each acceptable of estimates since the clip bid started successful 2001

Blackpool has replaced Glasgow arsenic the country successful Britain with the lowest antheral beingness expectancy.

A babe lad calved successful Blackpool between 2021 and 2023 is presently apt to unrecorded for an mean of 73.1 years. Meanwhile 1 calved successful Glasgow is apt to unrecorded for 73.6 years. It is the archetypal clip the Scottish metropolis has not recorded the lowest estimation since existent information began.

Glasgow had antecedently recorded the lowest beingness expectancy for males successful each acceptable of estimates since the clip bid started successful 2001.

The figures person been published by Office for National Statistics (ONS) and amusement a wide geographical divide. The apical 10 highest section country antheral beingness expectancies are each successful the southbound of England, portion six of the lowest 10 are successful Scotland, 3 are successful the northbound of England and 1 is successful Wales.

Hart, successful Hampshire, has the highest estimated antheral beingness expectancy astatine commencement for 2021-23 (83.4 years), followed by Uttlesford successful Essex (83.0), Wokingham successful Berkshire (82.5) and Richmond-upon-Thames successful London (82.5).

Glasgow remains the country successful Britain with the lowest pistillate beingness expectancy. A babe miss calved successful 2021-23 is presently apt to unrecorded for 78.3 years, followed by the Scottish section authorities of East Ayrshire (78.6) and North Lanarkshire (78.7) and past Blackpool (78.9).

The Top 10s for females shows a akin signifier to those for males, with the 10 highest estimates each successful confederate England, portion the 9 of the 10 lowest estimates are divided betwixt Scotland and bluish England.

The highest pistillate beingness expectancy for babe girls calved successful 2021-23 is for Kensington & Chelsea successful London (86.5 years), followed by Richmond-upon-Thames (86.3), Winchester successful Hampshire (86.1) and Uttlesford (86.0).

The ONS figures besides amusement that beingness expectancy astatine commencement successful 2021-23 remained little than earlier the Covid-19 pandemic successful a bulk of areas for some males and females.

Greg Ceely, ONS caput of colonisation wellness monitoring, said: “Today's information amusement a diminution successful beingness expectancy successful astir areas during 2021 to 2023, compared with the play of 2017 to 2019.

“This suggests we are yet to spot a betterment from the alteration successful beingness expectancy we saw during the pandemic. Our results proceed to amusement a wide geographical divide.

“For example, successful England, antheral beingness expectancy successful the South East is 3 years higher than successful the North East, and pistillate beingness expectancy 2.7 years higher successful London compared to the North East.

“Taking Great Britain arsenic a whole, for the archetypal clip since this clip bid began, Blackpool, not Glasgow, has the lowest antheral beingness expectancy. Glasgow continues to person the lowest pistillate beingness expectancy.”

The estimates of beingness expectancy for babies calved successful 2021-23 volition bespeak the interaction of the Covid-19 pandemic, which contributed to a higher-than-average fig of deaths successful this period.

But portion the pandemic disrupted the tiny improvements successful beingness expectancy seen betwixt 2010 and 2019, it does not needfully mean a babe calved betwixt 2021 and 2023 volition spell connected to unrecorded a shorter beingness than 1 calved betwixt 2017 and 2019.

“If mortality rates amended successful the future, past play beingness expectancy volition increase,” the ONS added. Average antheral beingness expectancy astatine commencement successful 2021-23, (previous figures from 2017-19 successful brackets)

Lowest antheral beingness expectancy: Blackpool 73.14 (74.71); Glasgow 73.59 (73.57); West Dunbartonshire 74.29 (75.31); Dundee 74.63 (74.03); North Ayrshire 74.89 (76.23); North Lanarkshire 74.91 (75.22); East Ayrshire 75.23 (75.83); Manchester 75.24 (76.6); Hull 75.3 (76.16); Merthyr Tydfil 75.39 (76.63)

Highest antheral beingness expectancy: Hart 83.44 years (83.21 years); Uttlesford 82.96 (82.78); Wokingham 82.54 (82.27); Richmond upon Thames 82.48 (82.39); South Cambridgeshire 82.47 (82.87); Waverley 82.38 (82.48); Surrey Heath 82.3 (82.23); Mole Valley 82.2 (82.52); Elmbridge 82.18 (82.57); South Hams 82.14 (81.83)