Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1975, Portugal's life expectancy by age and sex increased by 1.0% compared to 1974, reaching 72.1.

Portugal ranks 14th out of 15 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 3.4% (from 69.7 in 1970).

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