life expectancy

• life expectancy - an average period that someone might live

  • in 1900 men were expected to live to 44
  • in 2018, males life expectancy was 78.95, females life expectancy was 82.8

  effects of

  • social class - better off people can access health care easier - betters their health and well being making them live longer
  • gender - women tend to outlive men as men take more risks 
  • region - eg north of the UK is poorer than the south, being born in north = having access to worse education which ruins the ability of getting desired grades to do certain jobs leading to doing an unskilled job