# The unequal healthy-life gap

> How long people live and how long they live in good health diverge sharply across London.

- Category: People
- Canonical: [https://londongraph.com/story/the-unequal-healthy-life-gap](https://londongraph.com/story/the-unequal-healthy-life-gap)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/story/the-unequal-healthy-life-gap](https://londongraph.com/data/story/the-unequal-healthy-life-gap)
- Latest contributing release: 2026-07-31T23:36:49.096Z

Life expectancy, healthy life expectancy and their sex gap are related but not interchangeable. Borough estimates are population measures with uncertainty, not predictions for an individual.

## Evidence

### Life expectancy

Latest borough estimates of years of life at birth.

- Current computed headline: Barking and Dagenham — 82.2 years at birth (Barking and Dagenham)
- Comparison: unavailable
- Release: not labelled
- Dataset: `life-expectancy`
- Explore: [how-long-a-londoner-gets](https://londongraph.com/g/how-long-a-londoner-gets)

### Healthy life expectancy

Latest borough estimates of years expected in good health.

- Current computed headline: Greenwich — 57.5 healthy years at birth (Greenwich)
- Comparison: unavailable
- Release: not labelled
- Dataset: `healthy-expectancy`
- Explore: [how-many-of-those-years-are-good-ones](https://londongraph.com/g/how-many-of-those-years-are-good-ones)

### Women and men

The published London borough-average sex gap over time.

- Current computed headline: Women — 85.02 years at birth (2025)
- Men: 81.04 years at birth
- Release: not labelled
- Dataset: `life-expectancy-gap`
- Explore: [the-four-year-gap](https://londongraph.com/g/the-four-year-gap)

## Interpretation

Borough estimates carry sampling and modelling uncertainty. Differences are descriptive and do not identify individual outcomes or causes.

Every numerical claim is computed from the current versioned datasets at render time. Missing data is reported as missing rather than replaced.

## Sources

- [OHID Fingertips](https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/)