General Article Life expectancy in Britain has fallen so much that a million years of life could disappear by 2058

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Danny Dorling, University of Oxford and Stuart Gietel-Basten, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Buried deep in a note towards the end of a recent bulletin published by the British government’s statistical agency was a startling revelation. On average, people in the UK are now projected to live shorter lives than previously thought.

In their projections, published in October 2017, statisticians at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated that by 2041, life expectancy fo...

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