Map reveals life expectancy in Britain based on where you live – how long is YOUR lifespan?

The vast gap in life expectancy in Britain was laid bare today in an interactive map showing how lifespan varies depending on where you live.

Figures show that children born in deprived parts of England, Scotland and Wales can die up to thirteen years earlier than children in more affluent areas.

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), girls born in Kensington and Chelsea between 2021 and 2023 are expected to live to the age of 86.

The lifespan for boys is in the highest Hart, Hampshire, where they are expected to reach 83.

But at the other end of the scale, boys in Blackpool are predicted to only live to 73, while girls in Glasgow are expected to live to just 78.

The ONS data also shows that average life expectancy in the three countries remained lower than before the pandemic.

Slough saw the biggest drop among boys, with Na h-Eileanan Siar in the Outer Hebrides taking the girls title.

Statisticians suggested Covid could be behind the trend of declining lifespans.

The The data also covers the period when Britain entered a crisis cost of living The crisis, which experts have warned, 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 mortality rate between 2020 and 2022 will last throughout a person’s life.

Calculating rates for men and women separately uses mortality records from 2021 to 2023 for each age group, the probability of death and the number of survivors in each group.

British-born boys and girls are expected to live the longest, at 79.11 years for men and 83.05 years for women, according to the analysts.

Across the three countries, Scotland scores the lowest at 76.79 years for men and 80.77 years for women.

In Wales the figures were 78.04 and 81.98 respectively.

The ONS noted that children born in 2021 to 2023 will not necessarily live shorter lives than children born in previous years. If mortality rates improve, life expectancy will increase, it added.

According to the local authority, a boy born in Hart can expect to reach his 83rd birthday (83.33), the longest recorded life expectancy for men.

Meanwhile, someone born in Blackpool is likely to live to just 73 years (73.14 years), 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 86 (86.46), but their peers in Glasgow are only likely to live to 78.26, a difference of just over eight years.

Major differences remain between the north and the south. All ten local authorities with the highest life expectancy fell in the south of England among both men and women.

Among those with the lowest life expectancy for men, six were in Scotland, three in the north of England and one in Wales.

Meanwhile, seven of the ten areas with the lowest female life expectancy were in Scotland.

Blackpool and Knowsley in the north of England and Blaenau Gwent in Wales completed the ten.

Statisticians blamed the decline in life expectancy compared to before the pandemic on Covid and the rise in mortality in 2020 and 2021.

Covid is believed to have widened inequality even further.

Experts fear the pandemic has exacerbated problems around health inequalities, with some attributing this to healthcare cuts and budget cuts.

The data also covers the period when Britain entered crisis cost of living crisis.

Researchers have warned that this is leaving people in poorer households forced to choose between heating and eating and managing the stress of debt – all of which can worsen health in the long term.

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 live past 80.

Global average life expectancy is expected to increase to approximately 78.1 years in 2050, an increase of 4.5 years. The Lancet Public Health study also found.

Experts said at the time that the trend was largely driven by public health measures that both prevented and improved survival rates from diseases such as cardiovascular disease, nutritional diseases and infections in mothers and newborns.

Commentators also said the figures provide a “tremendous opportunity” to “stay ahead of rising metabolic and nutritional risk factors” such as high blood pressure and BMI.

The world’s oldest living person is now Japan’s Tomiko Itooka, who was born on May 23, 1908 and is 116 years old.

At 115, Ethel Caterham, from Surrey, has become the oldest living person in Britain following the death of 112-year-old Mollie Walker on January 22, 2022.

The title of the oldest person to ever live belongs to France’s Jeanne Louise Calment, whose life spanned 122 years and 164 days.

Mrs Caterham, who died in 1997, attributed her longevity to ‘never arguing with anyone, I listen and I do what I like’.

Experts who have studied centenarians agree.

Physical activity, faith, love, camaraderie and a sense of purpose are the backbone of so-called ‘Blue Zones’, or areas of the world where people typically live to be 100 years or older.

Maintaining an active lifestyle, even just walking around town every day, has been shown to extend lifespan.

Companionship has been shown to have a similarly positive effect on a person’s lifespan, with studies consistently showing that loneliness is toxic.