TOPIC · 25 INDICATORS · EUROSTAT
Health
Mortality, hospital infrastructure, health workforce, causes of death and self-reported health status across EU member states, drawn from Eurostat's health statistics programme.
EU-27 average
81.5
Range (min)
75.8
Range (max)
84.0
Countries covered
27/27
Health across the EU
Latest values for Life expectancy by age and sex (2024) across 27 EU member states. Click a country tile for its full profile.
Top 10 · highest life expectancy by age and sex
Snapshot year 2024 · 27 countries covered · EU-27 avg 81.5
All indicators in this topic
Every Eurostat indicator currently held for this topic, grouped into reader-friendly clusters. Each card links to the cross-country profile with the full time series.
Life expectancy & mortality
1 indicatorCauses of death
6 indicators- Death due to cancer, by sextps00116 · 28 countries466.3EU-27 · 2023
- Death due to other ischaemic heart diseases, by sextps00119 · 28 countries135.3EU-27 · 2023
- Death due to suicide, by sextps00122 · 28 countries20.7EU-27 · 2023
- Death due to accidents, by sextps00125 · 28 countries69.4EU-27 · 2023
- Death due to pneumonia, by sextps00128 · 28 countries49.9EU-27 · 2023
- Death due to transport accidents, by sextps00165 · 28 countries9.88EU-27 · 2023
Health workforce & infrastructure
7 indicators- Hospital beds by NUTS 2 region - historical data (1993-2016)hlth_rs_bdsrg · 27 countries
- Nursing and caring professionals - historical data (1980-2021)hlth_rs_prsns · 27 countries
- Practising physicianstps00044 · 24 countries
- Practising dentiststps00045 · 22 countries
- Hospital bedstps00046 · 28 countries510.8EU-27 · 2023
- Discharges from hospitalstps00048 · 27 countries
- Licensed physicianstps00167 · 22 countries
Other indicators
11 indicators- Individuals using the internet for seeking health-related informationtin00101 · 28 countries60.3EU-27 · 2025
- Death due to chronic liver disease, by sextps00131 · 28 countries27.4EU-27 · 2023
- Death due to diseases of the nervous system, by sextps00134 · 28 countries82.3%EU-27 · 2023
- Death due to diabetes mellitus, by sextps00137 · 28 countries47.1EU-27 · 2023
- Death due to alcoholic abuse, by sextps00140 · 28 countries6.92EU-27 · 2023
- Death due to AIDS (HIV-disease), by sextps00143 · 28 countries0.80EU-27 · 2023
- Death due to homicide, assault, by sextps00146 · 28 countries1.30EU-27 · 2023
- Death due to drugs dependence, by sextps00149 · 28 countries0.90EU-27 · 2023
- Causes of death, by sextps00152 · 28 countries1,927EU-27 · 2023
- Total health care expendituretps00207 · 28 countries7,670EU-27 · 2023
- Long-term care (health) expendituretps00214 · 28 countries655.9EU-27 · 2023
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Sources & methodology
Data on this page comes from Eurostat (25 indicators), fetched from the official dissemination API. Ranking snapshots use the most recent year with at least 18 covered member states; smaller samples are flagged. See methodology for the full ranking rules and data caveats.
Last refreshed: 2026-05-18 · Source: Eurostat dissemination API