Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1981, Bulgaria's life expectancy by age and sex increased by 0.6% compared to 1980, reaching 71.5.

Bulgaria ranks 11th out of 17 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 0.3% (from 71.3 in 1976).

Source: Eurostat dataset demo_mlexpec, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.