Life expectancy by age and sex

In 2000, Portugal's life expectancy by age and sex increased by 0.8% compared to 1999, reaching 80.4.

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 1.8% (from 79.0 in 1995).

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