Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1978, Portugal's life expectancy by age and sex increased by 0.6% compared to 1977, reaching 70.5.

Portugal ranks 12th out of 16 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 4.3% (from 67.6 in 1973).

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