Bedford local authority · 2025
How long we live
80.2
Male life expectancy · years
Life expectancy at birth · Male, All ages
England: 80.0 · 2025 — Similar
healthcards · Bedford · 2025
What this means
Male life expectancy at birth in Bedford was 80.2 years using provisional 2025 death rates. This describes how long a newborn would live if those age-specific rates continued, not a prediction for an individual child.
95% confidence interval: 79.4–81.0 years.
Fingertips comparison with England: Similar. 2025 uses provisional data.
Recent observations (Bedford)
- 2023: 79.5
- 2024: 80.2
- 2025: 80.2
These points share an indicator, sex, age and period type. Source-method changes and overlapping pooled periods can limit comparisons; see the caveats.
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Source & provenance
- Indicator:
- Life expectancy at birth (ID 90366)
- Source:
- Office for National Statistics
- Area:
- Bedford (E06000055), Upper-tier local authority (post Apr 2023)
- Period:
- 2025; retrieved 2026-10-13 (distinct from reporting period)
- Population:
- Male, All ages
- Note:
- Value based on provisional mortality and population data
Caveats
- 2025 figure uses provisional deaths and population — expect small revisions.
- An average across the whole area hides big gaps between neighbourhoods.
- Higher means longer average lives.
Missing or suppressed values are never shown as zero — every card above passed validation with a real numeric value.