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.
• National life tables use three years of deaths and population estimates, to smooth out year-to-year changes.

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