Mortality in United Kingdom, 2020

United Kingdom
2020
Life expectancy: 80.4
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in United Kingdom was 80.4 years in 2020: 82.4 for women and 78.4 for men, a gap of 4.0 years. 691,537 people died; 84.8% of them were 65 or older and 0.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 85-89. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
80.4
Women
82.4
Men
78.4
Life expectancy at 65
19.3
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
3.7
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
4.2
Deaths
691,537
Deaths per 1,000 people
10.3
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
94
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
58
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2020's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
Deaths per 1,000 people per year in each age group. Logarithmic scale: each gridline is ten times the one below. Hover for exact values.
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Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
03.364.0382.478.4
1-40.110.1381.777.7
5-90.040.0777.773.7
10-140.070.0972.768.7
15-190.150.2967.863.8
20-240.200.4962.858.9
25-290.290.6357.954.0
30-340.480.8952.949.2
35-390.781.3448.144.4
40-441.201.9643.239.7
45-491.873.0038.535.0
50-542.764.4833.830.5
55-594.156.6929.326.1
60-646.6710.4424.821.9
65-6910.1916.2420.618.0
70-7416.6525.3116.514.3
75-7930.3544.9312.710.8
80-8455.4677.769.47.9
85-89104.68137.966.55.5
90-94191.06235.914.43.8
95-99319.23372.102.92.6
100+490.51538.272.01.9