Life, health and death feature of north-south divide in Britain: report
Xinhua, November 29, 2016 Adjust font size:
Men born in one of the most exclusive areas of London have a life span a decade longer than city dwellers born in Glasgow, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported Tuesday.
Males on average reach 83.4 years in the British capital's fashionable Chelsea and Kensington area.
Head north on a 550 km journey and Glaswegian males living in Scotland's biggest city have an average lifespan of 73.4 years.
Women in one part of Scotland, West Dunbartonshire, have the lowest average lifespan in Britain for females, reaching an average 78.7 years. In Hart, in the South East England county of Hampshire, women were the longest survivors, reaching an average 86.7 years.
Hart is famed for multiple wins in a contest to find the most desirable place in Britain in which to live.
On average, across Britain lifespan continues to increase year by year, now reaching 79.2 years for males and 82.9 years for females.
The ONS figures, based on statistics covering 2015, show that a newborn baby boy can expect to live 63.1 years in good health on current health status rates, with females likely to enjoy a slightly higher 63.9 years of good health.
ONS said their figures show females continue to have higher life expectancy estimates than males, but males live a higher proportion of their lives in good health and disability-free.
For males at birth across Britain, Rutland in England's east Midland's region, had the highest estimates for healthy and disability-free life expectancy (71.8 and 70.8 years respectively). At the opposite end of the health scale, men in the London borough of Tower Hamlets could expect to enjoy 54 years in good health, while in the Welsh valleys men in Blaenau Gwent on average record 51.3 years of disability-free life.
Women in the remote Scottish Orkney Islands had the highest level of good health, 74.6 years, while women in Northern Ireland's Antrim and Newtonabbey, near Belfast, had the lowest level of healthy years, 51.4 years. Endit