Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1972, Bulgaria's life expectancy by age and sex decreased by 0.1% compared to 1971, reaching 73.1.

Bulgaria ranks 10th out of 13 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 0.7% (from 72.6 in 1967).

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