Life expectancy has been steadily improving in the UK for 110 years. Until now. A further million earlier deaths are now projected to happen across the country in the next 40 years by 2058.
Danny Dorling and Stuart Gietel-Basten dove into the latest life expectancy projections for this in depth article for The Conversation. It’s read aloud by Annabel Bligh for The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast.
You can read the text version of this article here.
The music in this episode is Night Caves, by Lee Rosevere from the Free Music Archive. A big thanks to City University London’s Department of Journalism for letting us use their studios to record.
Danny Dorling is an unpaid member of Public Health England’s mortality surveillance advisory group, an honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges and a senior associate member of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Stuart Gietel-Basten does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
