Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1979, Portugal's life expectancy by age and sex increased by 1.1% compared to 1978, reaching 71.3.

Portugal ranks 9th 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 4.5% (from 68.2 in 1974).

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