English Life Tables No.17, 2010 to 2012

2 Sep 2015 12:58 PM

Main points

• Over the last 100 years life expectancy at birth has increased by nearly 3 years per decade.
• For males, life expectancy at birth increased from 51 years in 1910-1912 to 79 years in 2010-12, while for females it increased from 55 to 83 years.
• Much of this increase is due to improvements in infant and child mortality in the first half of the 20th century, while gains in life expectancy at older ages have mainly occurred in the last 50 years.
• People aged 60 could expect to live around 9 years longer in 2010-2012 than 100 years earlier.

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