Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1997, Ireland's life expectancy by age and sex increased by 0.4% compared to 1996, reaching 73.4.

Ireland ranks 14th 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 72.7 in 1992).

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