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Mortality Insights

The latest edition of Mortality Insights focuses on COVID-19. It also looks at a recent report which considers life expectancy differences between ethnic groups.

We have analysed the latest position on COVID-19 mortality in our most recent edition of Mortality Insights. Experts at the Government Actuary’s Department (GAD) also examine the impact of the vaccination programme.

Mortality Insights is a twice-yearly publication from GAD which tackles key topics on current developments in the area of longevity research.

In this edition, we also consider a recent report from the Office for National Statistics in which it considers differences in life expectancy between different ethnic groups. It examined deaths over the 3 years following the 2011 census date.

Published 5 October 2021