Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1999, Italy's life expectancy by age and sex increased by 0.6% compared to 1998, reaching 79.6.

Italy ranks 1st 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 78.0 in 1994).

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