Post-recession Britons are healthier, better off and living greener lives

National wellbeing snapshot covering period as UK shrugged off financial crisis finds improvements in 17 of its measures

Recovery from the deepest recession in Britain's post-war history has left Britons healthier, better off, less likely to be victims of crime and living greener lives, according to the latest official snapshot of national wellbeing.

Life expectancy and living standards rose while unemployment fell during a three-year period from 2012-14, a time when the UK finally shrugged off the after effects of the financial crisis that began in 2007.

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