Drop in healthy life expectancy for babies born in 2020-22
The number of years of good health a newborn baby in England can expect to enjoy has fallen, figures suggest.
Average healthy life expectancy for a child born between 2020 and 2022 is estimated to be 62.4 years for males and 62.7 for females, down from 63.3 and 63.7 years respectively for births in 2017-19.
The drop means the healthy life expectancy of a boy born in 2020-22 is 9.3 months lower than it was in 2011-13 when (ONS) which published the data.
