Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1979, Bulgaria's life expectancy by age and sex increased by 0.5% compared to 1978, reaching 74.0.

Bulgaria ranks 13th out of 16 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 73.5 in 1974).

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