Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1995, Ireland's life expectancy by age and sex decreased by 0.4% compared to 1994, reaching 72.8.

Ireland ranks 13th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1.0% (from 72.1 in 1990).

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