New data from the Office for National Statistics shows that people born in the UK today are expected to live longer than previous generations. However, projected life expectancy for children born in ...

UK residents are living longer but with fewer years in good health, data show. But how reliable are these numbers, and what ...

Tim Harford investigates a fall in healthy life expectancy, the spiralling costs of HS2, the effect of government VAT cuts ...

Healthy life expectancy in Britain is in "crisis" with people in the country’s poorest areas now likely to fall into ill ...

So, some cheerful news! Life expectancy in the UK just fell to its lowest level in a decade. New ONS data shows life expectancy at birth in 2020 to 2022 was 78.6 years for males and 82.6 years for ...

The number of years people in the UK spend in good health is falling, according to a new report. Over the past decade healthy life expectancy (HLE) has dropped by around two years to just under 61 for ...

Life expectancy in the UK has fallen for both males and females, with the reduction driven mainly by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. A boy born between 2020 and 2022 is expected to live until ...

While people in the UK may indeed be living longer than their ancestors, the quality of their later decades is being significantly impacted by public health threats. Over the past decade, healthy life ...

In the United Kingdom, adults with diagnosed attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are living significantly shorter lives than the general population, likely due to modifiable risk ...

(CNN) — If you’re thinking about making a New Year’s resolution to quit smoking, it might help to know that new research says it could extend your life expectancy. Each cigarette someone smokes, on ...