Lower healthy life expectancy causes retirement planning challenges

22 February 2026

A drop in healthy life expectancy poses challenges for retirement planning, warn industry experts. Figures from the Office for National Statistics revealed that in 2022-24, men in the UK can expect to spend 60.7 years in ‘good’ general health, a drop of 1.8 years compared with 2019-22. Meanwhile, women can expect to spend 60.9...