Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1998, Italy's life expectancy by age and sex increased by 0.3% compared to 1997, reaching 76.0.

Italy ranks 2nd 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 74.6 in 1993).

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