UK Mortality Trends — verified ONS data

All charts built from data extracted directly from the named ONS publications: UK National Life Tables 1980–2024 (single-year), England & Wales ASMR 1994–2024, Healthy Life Expectancy by IMD decile England 2011–13 to 2022–24, Annual death registrations leading causes 2015–2024 (England), and OHID Fingertips Mortality Profile 2016–2025. No synthetic or interpolated values.
All figures below were extracted directly from published ONS / OHID spreadsheets and APIs (URLs in Sources). Each chart shows what the source dataset reports — gaps reflect causes that fell outside the leading-cause top 5 in that year (rather than missing data).
2011 — stall begins
2020 — pandemic

UK life expectancy at birth, 1980–2024 ONS NLT single-year

Stall is visible from around 2011. Pandemic dip 2020. 2024: M 79.4, F 83.3 — women back at peak, men still ~10 weeks below 2019.

Age-standardised mortality rate, England & Wales 1994–2024 ONS DR Table 1

Per 100,000. Long fall through the 1990s and 2000s, then a slowing decline post-2011, sharp 2020 spike, ongoing recovery.

Life expectancy by deprivation decile, England — change over time ONS HLE-IMD

Solid line = least deprived 10% (decile 10). Dashed = most deprived 10% (decile 1). The gap has widened since 2011–13: male gap now 10.4 years (was 9.0); female gap now 8.1 years (was 6.9).
Female LE in the most deprived decile fell from 79.0 (2011–13) to 77.7 (2020–22), partial recovery to 78.3 (2022–24). Male LE in most deprived: 73.9 (2011–13) → 72.6 (2020–22) → 73.2 (2022–24). Least-deprived deciles continued improving throughout.

Leading causes of death by age and sex, England 2015–2024 ONS DR Table 4

For each age group: number of deaths per year for each cause that ranked in the top 5 leading causes at any point. Dropouts (gaps in lines) mean that cause was not in the top 5 that year, not that the data is missing. Use the sex toggle above to switch.
Notable patterns: accidental poisoning rose from 1,008 to 1,410 deaths in 35–49y men (becoming the leading cause, overtaking suicide and IHD). IHD rose from 5,108 to 5,935 in 50–64y men — first sustained increase in a generation. Liver cirrhosis rose in working-age men and women. Lung cancer fell across most age groups. Suicide in 5–19y females rose from 55 to 81.

Cause × deprivation × time — under-75 mortality, England 2016–2025 Fingertips Mortality Profile

Age-standardised under-75 mortality rate per 100,000 by IMD decile. Solid red = most deprived 10% (decile 1). Grey dashed = mid (decile 5). Solid blue = least deprived 10% (decile 10). Sex filter applies.
Definition note: 2016–2021 uses IMD2019 deciles; 2022–2025 uses IMD2025 deciles. Pre-2016 IMD2010 data excluded to avoid spurious discontinuities. Source: OHID Fingertips Mortality Profile (extracted via API).

Direct data sources (all extracted programmatically)