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Female life expectancy at birth in the United Kingdom from 1980/82 to 2022/24, by country

Characteristic	England	Scotland	Wales	Northern Ireland
1980-82	77.04	75.31	76.42	75.53
1981-83	77.26	75.47	76.56	75.99
1982-84	77.48	75.62	76.95	76.32
1983-85	77.61	75.82	77.14	76.68
1984-86	77.75	76	77.41	76.89
1985-87	77.88	76.21	77.53	77.12
1986-88	78.1	76.5	77.89	77.28
1987-89	78.26	76.47	78.01	77.51
1988-90	78.44	76.6	78.27	77.63
1989-91	78.61	76.74	78.46	78.01
1990-92	78.88	77.11	78.78	78.4
1991-93	78.98	77.12	78.78	78.56
1992-94	79.23	77.31	78.93	78.69
1993-95	79.33	77.44	78.93	78.64
1994-96	79.51	77.73	79.07	78.93
1995-97	79.58	77.85	79.05	79.16
1996-98	79.74	78.04	79.24	79.48
1997-99	79.9	78.18	79.33	79.45
1998-00	80.12	78.36	79.58	79.55
1999-01	80.33	78.56	79.73	79.75
2000-02	80.57	78.78	80.01	80.13
2001-03	80.67	78.87	80.11	80.42
2002-04	80.89	79.06	80.33	80.55
2003-05	81.12	79.26	80.56	80.82
2004-06	81.47	79.55	80.93	80.96
2005-07	81.67	79.69	81.08	81.18
2006-08	81.85	79.84	81.23	81.2
2007-09	82.09	80.06	81.4	81.32
2008-10	82.33	80.32	81.66	81.43
2009-11	82.67	80.62	82.01	81.84
2010-12	82.82	80.75	82.09	82.12
2011-13	82.95	80.89	82.18	82.29
2012-14	83.04	81.06	82.26	82.29
2013-15	83.04	81.13	82.22	82.28
2014-16	83.07	81.15	82.3	82.3
2015-17	83.07	81.09	82.2	82.32
2016-18	83.14	81.09	82.22	82.4
2017-19	83.28	81.14	82.19	82.56
2018-20	83.06	80.99	81.94	82.41
2019-21	82.94	80.84	81.88	82.28
2020-22	82.83	80.73	81.82	82.26
2021-23	83.04	80.8	82.01	82.48
2022-24	83.3	81.06	82.17	82.61

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December 2025

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

1980 to 2024

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This statistic is using original data from the Office for National Statistics and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the .

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Female life expectancy at birth rose in all four countries of the United Kingdom in 2022-24 when compared with 2021-23. English women had a life expectancy of 83.3, compared with 81.06 in Scotland, 82.17 in Wales, and 82.61 in Northern Ireland.