Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1986, Portugal's life expectancy by age and sex increased by 0.5% compared to 1985, reaching 73.4.

Portugal ranks 13th out of 21 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 2.2% (from 71.8 in 1981).

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