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According to data from the Health and Safety Executive, there were 2,218 mesothelioma deaths in Great Britain in 2023. This is slightly lower than the figure for 2022 and notably lower than the average of 2,508 deaths per year over the period between 2011 and 2020. The most recent projections from the HSE suggest that annual deaths due to mesothelioma in men will reduce during the 2020s, although for women annual deaths are not expected to start to reduce until the late 2020s. This difference may reflect particularly heavy asbestos exposures in certain industries that mainly affected men—such as shipbuilding—being eliminated first, whereas exposures due to the use of asbestos in, say, construction, which affected many men but also some women, continued after 1970.