End of a dream?

摘要

First the good news: we're living longer in the UK, and men are slowly catching up with women. Now the bad news: the long-term narrowing of the gap in life expectancy between rich and poor has gone into reverse. A new analysis I co-wrote shows that among males who reach adulthood, the longest-lived can expect to reach an age of 96.2, living 34.2 years longer than those who fare worst. This gap is 1.7 years wider than in 1993, when it was narrowest, making the following period the first step back since the 1870s.