Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1979, Portugal's life expectancy by age and sex increased by 1.2% compared to 1978, reaching 67.9.

Portugal ranks 10th out of 16 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 4.8% (from 64.8 in 1974).

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