Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1972, Portugal's life expectancy by age and sex increased by 3.0% compared to 1971, reaching 68.4.

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 3.5% (from 66.1 in 1967).

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