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Health · 8 hours ago

Blackpool people four times likelier to die before 60 than in Hart

Blackpool people four times likelier to die before 60 than in Hart

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Across the UK, 1 in 13 people do not reach the age of 60, but in Blackpool this figure is 1 in 7, or 14.7%. Health Equals, a health inequality campaign group, built the figures from Office for National Statistics data covering deaths from 2022 to 2024. Hart in Hampshire has the lowest rate at 4%.

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