Residents of Blackpool, Britain’s most deprived local authority, are most likely to die before their life expectancy would suggest

People who live in the most deprived parts of the country are almost twice as likely to die early as those in the most affluent, according to a study.

Researchers calculated the places with the most “years of life lost” by comparing the age at which people died with their life expectancy.

In Blackpool — Britain’s most deprived local authority — 14,274 years of life were lost for every 100,000 people. In Wokingham, the most affluent, only 6,888 years were lost.

John Newton, a director at Public Health England, who co-wrote the paper, said the research showed “the stark division between rich and poor areas, which sees poorer people dying earlier and getting sicker quicker”.

The leading cause of early death across the UK was