The rich and those living in southern England typically enjoy longer lives.
As people are living longer, ministers are trying to encourage workers not to opt out of new workplace pensions to be introduced next year.
Most workers retire with a pension previously intended to fund a retirement of 10 or 20 years rather than an extra 30 years of life. For example, savings of £100,000 would pay out at least £5,000 a year for two decades, but less than £3,500 over three decades. Under the auto enrolment scheme, all workers will be offered a pension to which their employer will make some contributions.
However, people can ask to leave the pension.
The Government has previously declined to cut universal benefits offered to pensioners and will increase the state pension in line with wages, rather than inflation, from next year.
Some experts believe that such measures will become increasingly unfair on younger generations.
Life expectancy for babies and those retiring has confounded experts, rising more quickly than expected.
Average life expectancy for a newborn girl is now 81 years and nine months, while for boys it is 77 years and seven months.
More than a quarter of newborn boys 30 years ago were expected to die before their 65th birthday, compared with 15 per cent today
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