Blackpool replaces Glasgow as area of Britain with lowest male life expectancy

Blackpool has replaced Glasgow arsenic the section country successful Britain with the lowest antheral beingness expectancy astatine commencement – the archetypal clip the Scottish metropolis has not recorded the lowest estimation since existent information began.

A babe lad calved successful Blackpool successful Lancashire betwixt 2021 and 2023 is presently apt to unrecorded for an mean of 73.1 years, portion 1 calved successful Glasgow is apt to unrecorded for 73.6 years.

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

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 (Glasgow, West Dunbartonshire, Dundee, North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire and East Ayrshire), 3 are successful the northbound of England (Blackpool, Manchester and Hull) and 1 is successful Wales (Merthyr Tydfil).

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, with a babe miss calved successful 2021-23 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 10 lowest estimates are divided betwixt Scotland (Glasgow, East Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, West Dunbartonshire, Dundee, North Ayrshire and Inverclyde), bluish England (Blackpool and Knowsley) and Wales (Blaenau Gwent).

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 (288 of 348 section authorities, oregon 83%) and females (242 authorities, oregon 70%).

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.

Slough successful Berkshire has seen the biggest autumn successful antheral beingness expectancy astatine commencement since earlier the Covid-19 pandemic, dropping from 79.1 years successful 2017-19 to 77.1 successful 2021-23.

Blackburn with Darwen successful Lancashire and North Devon recorded the adjacent largest falls, dropping from 77.5 years to 75.6 and from 80.6 years to 78.9 respectively.

For pistillate beingness expectancy astatine birth, the biggest autumn has occurred successful Na h-Eileanan Siar, wherever the fig decreased from 83.3 years successful 2017-19 to 81.2 years successful 2021-23.

The adjacent largest falls were successful Epsom & Ewell successful Surrey, down from 87.0 years to 85.4, and Leicester, down from 82.2 years to 80.6.

The largest gains successful antheral beingness expectancy astatine commencement crossed this play occurred successful East Cambridgeshire (from 80.9 years to 82.0), Basingstoke & Deane successful Hampshire (80.4 to 81.5) and Torridge successful Devon (79.7 to 80.6); portion for pistillate beingness expectancy it was Torridge (from 82.9 years to 84.1), Watford successful Hertfordshire (82.5 to 83.5) and West Devon (83.9 to 84.8).