Poor live 20 years less than rich in UK

While life expectancy for women in areas like Toxteth and Everton in Liverpool is 74 years, their counterparts from Comberton, Cambridgeshire, expect to live until 94, a survey by anti-poverty charity Church Urban Fund found.

According to the study, Toxteth, near Liverpool’s city center is the bottom of the list in terms of both poverty and life-span as 62 percent of all children there live in poverty and Camberley in Surrey, where child poverty is just 6 percent, is the most affluent area with highest life expectancy.

Shaw Road in Oldham is the worst area after Toxteth while five of the rest among the 10 worst are from Liverpool.

Paul Hackwood, chair of trustees for the Church Urban Fund, said the figures represent a shocking poor-rich divide, which makes Britain one of the most unjust countries in the Western world.

“We live in one of the most unequal countries in the Western world, where babies born within a few miles of one another can have widely differing life expectancies – of 10 years or more,” Hackwood said.

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