Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1973, Bulgaria's life expectancy by age and sex increased by 0.8% compared to 1972, reaching 73.7.

Bulgaria ranks 9th 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 0.5% (from 73.3 in 1968).

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