United Kingdom's life expectancy rose from 76.8 yrs in 1995 to 81.4 yrs in 2024.
United Kingdom · Health
Longevity, mortality, health system capacity and risk factors.
23 indicators · 23 with data
United Kingdom's healthy life expectancy at birth rose from 67.3 yrs in 2000 to 68.6 yrs in 2021.
United Kingdom's infant mortality fell from 6.1 ‰ in 1995 to 4.1 ‰ in 2024.
United Kingdom's under-5 mortality rate fell from 7.2 ‰ in 1995 to 4.7 ‰ in 2024.
United Kingdom's maternal mortality ratio fell from 9.0 /100k in 1994 to 8.0 /100k in 2023.
United Kingdom's ncd mortality fell from 16.5 % in 2000 to 11.0 % in 2021.
United Kingdom's suicide mortality rate rose from 8.5 /100k in 2000 to 9.6 /100k in 2021.
United Kingdom's mortality caused by road traffic injury fell from 6.9 /100k in 2000 to 3.2 /100k in 2019.
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- Health spendingup +0.1 pts6th of 22
- Current health expenditure per capita (current US$)up +8.4 %10th of 22
- Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure)down −0.1 pts11th of 22
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- Physiciansup +5.0 %18th of 63
- Nurses and midwivesup +5.4 %8th of 79
- Hospital bedsup +0.4 %68th of 113*
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- Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12–23 months)down −1.0 pts103rd of 192
- Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12–23 months)unchanged +0.0 pts86th of 192
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- Prevalence of HIV (ages 15–49)unchanged +0.0 pts44th of 150
- Incidence of tuberculosisup +12.8 %57th of 208
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- Safe drinking waterdown −0.0 pts17th of 148
- Safe sanitationup +0.0 pts13th of 141