Life expectancy by age and sex

In 1989, Portugal's life expectancy by age and sex increased by 0.9% compared to 1988, reaching 70.9.

Portugal ranks 13th out of 21 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 2.5% (from 69.2 in 1984).

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