Scotland’s most populous city, Glasgow, offers the lowest life expectancy in the UK for both men and women, according to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).
The city’s men have a life expectancy of 72.6 and women 78.5, with both figures around ten years lower than the areas of highest life expectancy in the UK, where men in east Dorset live to 82.9 and women in Purbeck to 86.6.
East Dorset (82.9 years).
A poor diet and unhealthy lifestyle choices are believed to be partially to blame for the lower life expectancy in Glasgow, but the ONS figures also reveal that deprivation and poverty also have a major impact.
Compared with the country figures provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO), those who life in Glasgow have similar life expectancies to those living in Syria, Iran, and the Gaza Strip, with some claiming that the city has the lowest life expectancy in the developed world.
Sweden and Spain continue to have the highest life expectancy rates in Europe, with men and women expected to reach 82 years old.
