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Life expectancy (from birth) in the United Kingdom from 1765 to 2020*

Characteristic	Life expectancy in years
2020	81.15
2015	80.87
2010	79.69
2005	78.41
2000	77.17
1995	76.24
1990	75.14
1985	74.19
1980	73.01
1975	72.21
1970	71.71
1965	71.04
1960	70.61
1955	69.41
1950	67.66
1945	64.01
1940	62.34
1935	60.97
1930	59.46
1925	58.31
1920	48.89
1915	52.02
1910	52.07
1905	49.48
1900	46.81
1895	45.75
1890	45.78
1885	45.32
1880	43.89
1875	42.39
1870	41.53
1865	41.18
1860	41.8
1855	40.66
1850	39.59
1845	41.8
1840	40.55
1835	40.85
1830	41.52
1825	40.46
1820	40.53
1815	41.23
1810	40.74
1805	39.41
1800	39.37
1795	37.65
1790	38.7
1785	36.69
1780	38.18
1775	38.8
1770	35.33
1765	38.88

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Release date

June 2019

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

1765-2020

Supplementary notes

*All data given is an average of the preceding five year period.
Data for the second source can be found .

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Life expectancy in the United Kingdom was below 39 years in the year 1765, and over the course of the next two and a half centuries, it is expected to have increased by more than double, to 81.1 by the year 2020. Although life expectancy has generally increased throughout the UK's history, there were several times where the rate deviated from its previous trajectory. These changes were the result of smallpox epidemics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new sanitary and medical advancements throughout time (such as compulsory vaccination), and the First world War and Spanish Flu epidemic in the 1910s.