Life expectancy in the UK has not flatlined over the last 15 years, but it has experienced a significant slowdown in improvement and even a decline in recent years. While life expectancy at birth increased steadily in the UK from 1990 to 2011, the rate of improvement slowed markedly after 2011, with growth dropping from 0.25 years per decade to just 0.07 years per decade in England alone. This trend was not unique to England, as life expectancy growth also declined across the UK, with Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland each seeing a reduction of 0.15 to 0.16 years in improvement rates. The slowdown was driven by increasing mortality from cardiovascular diseases, respiratory infections, and neoplasms (tumors), alongside persistent challenges such as high BMI, poor diet, physical inactivity, and high alcohol consumption. The situation worsened during the Covid-19 pandemic, which caused a sharp decline in life expectancy in 2020 and 2021, with life expectancy falling to its lowest level in a decade by 2022, although it began to recover slightly thereafter. Thus, while the trend has not been flat, it has stagnated and even reversed in some periods, indicating a significant departure from the previous trajectory of steady gains.
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