United Kingdom - Life expectancy at birth

Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in United Kingdom was 82.90 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 83.20 in 2014 and a minimum value of 73.90 in 1961.

Definition: Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Popu

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Year Value
1960 74.20
1961 73.90
1962 74.00
1963 73.90
1964 74.80
1965 74.80
1966 74.80
1967 75.30
1968 74.90
1969 75.00
1970 75.20
1971 75.50
1972 75.30
1973 75.50
1974 75.70
1975 75.90
1976 75.90
1977 76.40
1978 76.30
1979 76.40
1980 76.80
1981 77.10
1982 77.20
1983 77.40
1984 77.80
1985 77.60
1986 77.90
1987 78.20
1988 78.30
1989 78.40
1990 78.80
1991 78.90
1992 79.20
1993 79.10
1994 79.60
1995 79.50
1996 79.70
1997 79.90
1998 79.70
1999 79.90
2000 80.20
2001 80.40
2002 80.50
2003 80.70
2004 81.00
2005 81.20
2006 81.40
2007 81.60
2008 81.70
2009 82.10
2010 82.40
2011 83.00
2012 82.80
2013 82.90
2014 83.20
2015 82.80
2016 83.00
2017 83.10
2018 83.10
2019 83.10
2020 82.90

Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in United Kingdom was 80.90 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.30 in 2014 and a minimum value of 70.83 in 1963.

Definition: Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision, or derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3)

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Year Value
1960 71.13
1961 70.88
1962 70.93
1963 70.83
1964 71.62
1965 71.62
1966 71.57
1967 72.12
1968 71.72
1969 71.72
1970 71.97
1971 72.27
1972 72.12
1973 72.32
1974 72.52
1975 72.72
1976 72.78
1977 73.22
1978 73.18
1979 73.28
1980 73.68
1981 74.03
1982 74.18
1983 74.38
1984 74.78
1985 74.63
1986 74.93
1987 75.28
1988 75.38
1989 75.58
1990 75.88
1991 76.08
1992 76.43
1993 76.39
1994 76.89
1995 76.84
1996 77.09
1997 77.21
1998 77.19
1999 77.39
2000 77.74
2001 77.99
2002 78.14
2003 78.45
2004 78.75
2005 79.05
2006 79.25
2007 79.45
2008 79.60
2009 80.05
2010 80.40
2011 80.95
2012 80.90
2013 81.00
2014 81.30
2015 80.96
2016 81.16
2017 81.26
2018 81.26
2019 81.20
2020 80.90

Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in United Kingdom was 79.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79.50 in 2018 and a minimum value of 67.90 in 1963.

Definition: Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Popu

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Year Value
1960 68.20
1961 68.00
1962 68.00
1963 67.90
1964 68.60
1965 68.60
1966 68.50
1967 69.10
1968 68.70
1969 68.60
1970 68.90
1971 69.20
1972 69.10
1973 69.30
1974 69.50
1975 69.70
1976 69.80
1977 70.20
1978 70.20
1979 70.30
1980 70.70
1981 71.10
1982 71.30
1983 71.50
1984 71.90
1985 71.80
1986 72.10
1987 72.50
1988 72.60
1989 72.90
1990 73.10
1991 73.40
1992 73.80
1993 73.80
1994 74.30
1995 74.30
1996 74.60
1997 74.65
1998 74.80
1999 75.00
2000 75.40
2001 75.70
2002 75.90
2003 76.30
2004 76.60
2005 77.00
2006 77.20
2007 77.40
2008 77.60
2009 78.10
2010 78.50
2011 79.00
2012 79.10
2013 79.20
2014 79.50
2015 79.20
2016 79.40
2017 79.50
2018 79.50
2019 79.40
2020 79.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality