We can finally link life expectancy to ethnicity | David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters
Although our world seems increasingly awash with data, there are still data deserts, leading to gaps in understanding.
One big omission is that death registrations in England and Wales do not hold information on ethnicity, but an experimental analysis by the Office for National Statistics linked 2011 census records to 88% of death registrations between 2011 and 2014, with results weighted to deal with limitations in the records. It may be surprising that life expectancy at birth was lower in UK White and Mixed ethnic groups than all other self-reported ethnicities. For example, Black African women had an estimated life expectancy of 89 years (87 to 91 years), around six years more than White and Mixed ethnic women, while for Black men it was around 84 years (83 to 85), longer than most other groups.
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