Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1996, Portugal's life expectancy by age and sex increased by 0.0% compared to 1995, reaching 79.0.

Portugal ranks 13th out of 24 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1.7% (from 77.7 in 1991).

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