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Findings on healthy life expectancy in UK shed light on its deteriorating health

impact as well as a substantial human cost”. The UK’s two-year fall in healthy life expectancy means it is “diverging from trends seen in most comparable high-income countries”. The huge toll

More UK deaths than births expected every year from now on

trend, said Dr Madeleine Sumption, of Oxford University's Migration Observatory. "In the short term, the projections suggest net migration will fall temporarily before bouncing back up again." The chart below shows that [net migration

The tipping point: what happens when deaths outnumber births?

trends have spread beyond the richest economies. In many middle- and lower-income countries, fertility is falling despite more limited economic development. Parts of Latin America, as well as countries such as Jamaica and Thailand