Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1998, Germany's life expectancy by age and sex increased by 0.5% compared to 1997, reaching 77.8.

Germany ranks 8th 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 2.1% (from 76.2 in 1993).

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