Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1981, Portugal's life expectancy by age and sex increased by 0.4% compared to 1980, reaching 71.8.

Portugal ranks 9th out of 17 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 4.1% (from 69.0 in 1976).

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