Exclusive: average life expectancy in most deprived areas is 78.7, worse than overall average of any OECD nation except Mexico
Women in the poorest areas of England are dying earlier than the average female in almost every comparable country in the world, according to a damning analysis of life expectancy data that MPs and leading health experts have called “shocking”, “devastating” and “unacceptable”.
Millions of women living in the most deprived areas of England can expect to live 78.7 years, almost eight years shorter than those living in England’s wealthiest areas, the Health Foundation has discovered. It is worse than the average life expectancy for women in every single one of the world’s OECD countries except Mexico.
