About this data

Source: ONS, Health state life expectancies by national deprivation deciles, England and Wales; National Records of Scotland; Department of Health (Northern Ireland), Health Inequalities Annual Report 2026

• 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.
• Areas are small neighbourhoods (of around 1,500 people), grouped into tenths by the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, which combine income, employment, health, education, housing, crime and living environment.

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