demo_mlexpec · 2002–2024
Life expectancy by age and sex
Eurostat demo_mlexpec — Life expectancy by age and sex. Data range: 1960 to 2024.
At a glance
In 2024, the EU-27 figure for life expectancy by age and sex was 81.5.
That is a 0.1% rose versus 2023 (81.4).
Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 0.2% higher.
Across member states, Spain reported the highest value (84.0, 2024) and Bulgaria the lowest (75.8, 2024).
The figures below come from Eurostat dataset demo_mlexpec; every value links back to the canonical source.
EU-27 · 2024
81.5
HIGHEST · 2024
Spain
84.0
LOWEST · 2024
Bulgaria
75.8
Map · 2024
75.8 84.0
Ranking · 2024
Time series · top 12 countries + EU-27
- Spain 84
- Sweden 83.8
- Italy 83.7
- Cyprus 83.5
- Luxembourg 83.2
- Ireland 83.1
- France 83
- Malta 83
- Portugal 82.5
- Belgium 82.4
- Finland 82.2
- Austria 82.1
- European Union (27) 81.5
Country × year heatmap · all values
62.7 84.0
Member states · ranked by latest value
- #1 Spain ES · 2024 84.0
- #2 Sweden SE · 2024 83.8
- #3 Italy IT · 2024 83.7
- #4 Cyprus CY · 2024 83.5
- #5 Luxembourg LU · 2024 83.2
- #6 Ireland IE · 2024 83.1
- #7 France FR · 2024 83.0
- #8 Malta MT · 2024 83.0
- #9 Portugal PT · 2024 82.5
- #10 Belgium BE · 2024 82.4
- #11 Finland FI · 2024 82.2
- #12 Austria AT · 2024 82.1
- #13 Slovenia SI · 2024 82.1
- #14 Denmark DK · 2024 82.0
- #15 Greece EL · 2024 81.9
- #16 Netherlands NL · 2024 81.9
- #17 Germany DE · 2024 81.2
- #18 Czechia CZ · 2024 80.1
- #19 Estonia EE · 2024 79.4
- #20 Croatia HR · 2024 78.9
- #21 Poland PL · 2024 78.5
- #22 Slovakia SK · 2024 78.4
- #23 Lithuania LT · 2024 77.5
- #24 Hungary HU · 2024 76.8
- #25 Romania RO · 2024 76.5
- #26 Latvia LV · 2024 76.4
- #27 Bulgaria BG · 2024 75.8
By year
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
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- 1960
Source:
Eurostat · demo_mlexpec