Life Expectancy: Gateshead Central and Whickham
(asked on 8th November 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average life expectancy is in (a) Gateshead Central and Whickham constituency and (b) each ward of that constituency.
Life expectancy estimates for Parliamentary constituencies are not available. Life expectancy estimates for local authorities in England are produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The latest available figures from the ONS are for the three-year period 2020 to 2022. In that period, life expectancy at birth for the Gateshead local authority, which includes the constituency of Gateshead and Whickham, was 76.7 years for males, and 81.4 years for females.
Life expectancy estimates for electoral wards are produced by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID). The following table shows the latest available estimates of life expectancy at birth, separated by sex, for the five-year period of 2016 to 2020, in the electoral wards within the Gateshead Central and Whickham constituency: | |||
Electoral ward name | Sex | Life expectancy in years |
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Bridges | Male | 73.7 |
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Chowdene | Male | 77.8 |
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Deckham | Male | 74.1 |
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Dunston and Teams | Male | 73.0 |
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Dunston Hill and Whickham East | Male | 79.0 |
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High Fell | Male | 74.5 |
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Lobley Hill and Bensham | Male | 74.7 |
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Low Fell | Male | 80.8 |
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Saltwell | Male | 76.5 |
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Whickham North | Male | 77.9 |
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Whickham South and Sunniside | Male | 82.3 |
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Bridges | Female | 78.6 |
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Chowdene | Female | 83.1 |
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Deckham | Female | 77.8 |
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Dunston and Teams | Female | 81.1 |
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Dunston Hill and Whickham East | Female | 83.8 |
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High Fell | Female | 78.6 |
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Lobley Hill and Bensham | Female | 78.6 |
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Low Fell | Female | 83.8 |
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Saltwell | Female | 84.8 |
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Whickham North | Female | 80.3 |
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Whickham South and Sunniside | Female | 87.6 |
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Source: data is from the OHID’s Local Health profile, with further information on male and female life expectancy within the Gateshead local authority available, respectively, at the following two links:
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/local-health/data#page/3/gid/1938133185/pat/502/par/E08000037/ati/8/are/E05001067/iid/93283/age/1/sex/1/cat/-1/ctp/-1/yrr/5/cid/4/tbm/1
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/local-health/data#page/3/gid/1938133185/pat/502/par/E08000037/ati/8/are/E05001067/iid/93283/age/1/sex/2/cat/-1/ctp/-1/yrr/5/cid/4/tbm/1/page-options/car-do-0
The profile also provides comparable estimates for the Gateshead local authority for the five-year period, from 2016 to 2020.