Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1971, Portugal's life expectancy by age and sex decreased by 0.4% compared to 1970, reaching 66.4.

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

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1.7% (from 65.3 in 1966).

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