Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1999, Portugal's life expectancy by age and sex increased by 0.3% compared to 1998, reaching 79.8.

Portugal ranks 13th out of 25 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1.0% (from 79.0 in 1994).

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