Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1997, Portugal's life expectancy by age and sex increased by 0.5% compared to 1996, reaching 79.4.

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 1.3% (from 78.4 in 1992).

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