About this data

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), National life tables – life expectancy in the UK: 2022 to 2024

• Period life expectancy is the average number of years a person would live if they experienced the death rates of a given year at every age throughout their life. It's a summary of death rates in that year, not a forecast of how long people born then will actually live.
• The older someone already is, the older they can expect to live to, because they have survived the risks of death at younger ages.

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