Life expectancy - is it decreasing? Get the facts

According to recent newspaper reports the trend of increasing life expectancy for UK citizens has stalled since 2010.

This is based on the 2017 Marmot review
From the Institute of Health Equity work
the briefing for the 2017 review records that progress on increasing life expectancy is slowing it also considers the impact of low pay and socio economic factors on variation on health.

the Public Health England website has further information on the indicators.

National Life tables give Period life expectancy by age and sex. Each national life table is based on population estimates, births and deaths for a period of 3 consecutive years. In 2015 A newborn baby boy could expect to live 79.1 years and a newborn baby girl 82.8 years

the office for National statistics has some interesting tables on levels of current life expectancy. by local area. It concluded that between 2010-2014. The inequality between areason average life expactancy increased in some cases this measured 8 or 9 years in total.

Also useful are data related to disability free life expectancy. How long on average can people expect to live a healthy life?

How does this compare with the rest ofthe world?

view data from Eurostat which concludes that while on average life expectancy is increasing there is aconsiderable national variation  . For men, the lowest life expectancy in 2014 was recorded in Latvia (69.1 years) and the highest in Cyprus (80.9 years). For women,of 78.0 years in Bulgaria to a high of 86.2 years in Spain.

to  put this into perspective the World Health Organization. recorded an average globally of 71.5 years with 65.5 for healthy life. For some countries such as Angola in Africa the average is less than 53 years.