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For men in the UK it has fallen for the first time in 40 years, the Office for National Statistics says.
At birth in the three years prior to 2020, it was 79 years for men, falling back to a level last seen in 2012-14.
Female life expectancy was virtually unchanged, at just below 83.
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Figures looking at deprivation lag behind the most up to date stats, and are due out in March - but those available show a growing divide.
The figures from 2017-19 show a north/south divide, with the shorter lives of people in the north getting shorter, and the longer lives of those in south - particularly the South West - generally getting longer.
The gap at that time was 9.4 years for males and 7.6 years for females.
Between local authorities, Glasgow was lowest at 78.3 years for women (down from 78.7), 9.6 fewer years than Kensington and Chelsea (87.9 years), which was up from 86.2 years, so as a proxy for rich and poor, that gaps definitely growing.
For men, again, Glasgow was lowest at 73.1 years (down from 73.4), 11.6 fewer years than Westminster (84.7 years), which was up from 82.7 years.
ONS statistician Pamela Cobb said: “Life expectancy has increased in the UK over the last 40 years, albeit at a slower pace in the last decade.
“This is the first time we have seen a decline when comparing non-overlapping time periods since the series began in the early 1980s.”
The ONS calculates that a boy born between 2018 and 2020 is expected to live until he is 79 years old if current trends stay the same.
Before the pandemic life expectancy in the UK was increasing, although at a much slower rate after 2011 compared with previous decades.
Some analysis suggested it had tipped in to reverse in less wealthy area of the country following a decade of Tory austerity policies.
However this is the first full multi-year period where the NHS has been able to confirm this.
David Finch, assistant director at the Health Foundation, said: “While we would hope to see some bounce back in life expectancy as the country recovers from the pandemic, there is a risk that, without a focus on improving health, we will return to the slow progress we saw in the 2010s.
“Today’s data also provides further evidence of growing differences in health between local areas with gaps between the best and worst areas expanding for both men and women.”
Glasgow City had the lowest life expectancy at birth at 73.1 years for men and 78.3 years for women.
Even at the start of the millennium the best performing local areas exceeded this by 6 years.
Areas with the highest life expectancy were both in London with Westminster coming top for men at 84.7 years and Kensington and Chelsea for women at 87.9 years.
Life expectancy had been steadily rising for both men and women since the ONS first began collecting comparable data in 1980-82.
Then a newborn boy was expected to live for 70.8 years, while a woman would live on average for 76.8 years.
Separate Oxford University research indicates the Covid-19 pandemic saw life expectancy fall across most of Europe and the USA in 2020, on a scale not seen since the World War Two.
Author Dr Ridhi Kashyap, associate professor of social demography, said: “This is something that we really don’t have since World War Two for most of Western Europe - and since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, in the 1990s, in Eastern Europe.”
Pamela Cobb, of the ONS, added: “Demographers commonly refer to these changes in life expectancy as improvements as we have become accustomed to life expectancy increasing over time, albeit at a notably slower rate in the last decade.
“The coronavirus pandemic does not mean that we are going to live shorter lives on average, or that we might not expect a return to improvements in life expectancy in the future.
“But we will have to wait to see what the longer-term trend looks like when we emerge from the pandemic.”
