Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1989, Bulgaria's life expectancy by age and sex decreased by 0.1% compared to 1988, reaching 68.2.

Bulgaria ranks 15th out of 21 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 0.4% (from 68.5 in 1984).

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