Life expectancy for females in the UK has returned to pre-pandemic levels – though males have yet to show a similar recovery, new estimates suggest.

A baby girl born between 2022 and 2024 can expect to live for an average of 83.0 years, while a baby boy born is likely to live for 79.1 years.

Both figures are an improvement on the previous three-year period of 2019-2021, when life expectancy fell to 82.7 years for females and 78.7 years for males due to the impact of the pandemic.

The new estimate for females is similar to the figure for the years immediately before the arrival of Covid-19, when life expectancy was also 83.0 years.

But the new figure for males, 79.1 years, is slightly below the estimate of 79.3 years for boys born in 2017-19.

The data has been published by the Office f

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