Life Expectancy: West Midlands

(asked on 8th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of life expectancy in (a) Coventry South, (b) Coventry and (c) the West Midlands since 2010.


Answered by
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Steve Brine
This question was answered on 13th March 2019

The Office for National Statistics data show that life expectancy at birth for males in Coventry and the West Midlands was higher in 2015-17 than in 2010-12. In Coventry it increased by 0.4 years to 78.3 years, and in the West Midlands it increased by 0.2 years to 78.8 years. Life expectancy at birth for females in Coventry and the West Midlands was also higher in 2015-17 than in 2010-12. In Coventry it increased by 0.4 years to 82.4 years, and in the West Midlands it increased by 0.1 years to 82.7 years.

For both areas, life expectancy was higher in 2015-17 than in 2010-12, but there was some fluctuation in the trend between these two time points. Only male life expectancy at birth in the West Midlands was statistically significantly higher in 2015-17, compared with 2010-12.

The latest life expectancy data can be viewed at the following link:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandlifeexpectancies/datasets/lifeexpectancyatbirthandatage65bylocalareasuk

Life expectancy figures for the parliamentary constituency of Coventry South are not available.

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