Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1998, Finland's life expectancy by age and sex increased by 0.4% compared to 1997, reaching 81.0.

Finland ranks 5th out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1.9% (from 79.5 in 1993).

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