Euro area - Life expectancy at birth

Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in Euro area was 84.19 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 84.93 in 2019 and a minimum value of 72.08 in 1960.

Definition: Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Popu

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Year Value
1960 72.08
1961 72.51
1962 72.51
1963 72.74
1964 73.25
1965 73.36
1966 73.66
1967 73.84
1968 73.94
1969 74.00
1970 74.37
1971 74.54
1972 74.89
1973 75.01
1974 75.39
1975 75.59
1976 75.89
1977 76.29
1978 76.53
1979 76.88
1980 77.08
1981 77.38
1982 77.71
1983 77.78
1984 78.17
1985 78.32
1986 78.59
1987 78.91
1988 79.10
1989 79.35
1990 79.50
1991 79.66
1992 80.02
1993 80.08
1994 80.39
1995 80.54
1996 80.75
1997 81.04
1998 81.21
1999 81.40
2000 81.62
2001 81.90
2002 81.93
2003 81.85
2004 82.44
2005 82.56
2006 82.99
2007 83.19
2008 83.30
2009 83.49
2010 83.71
2011 84.20
2012 84.11
2013 84.35
2014 84.76
2015 84.29
2016 84.69
2017 84.56
2018 84.68
2019 84.93
2020 84.19

Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in Euro area was 81.54 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 82.33 in 2019 and a minimum value of 69.29 in 1960.

Definition: Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision, or derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3)

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Year Value
1960 69.29
1961 69.66
1962 69.62
1963 69.79
1964 70.24
1965 70.33
1966 70.60
1967 70.74
1968 70.79
1969 70.80
1970 71.16
1971 71.27
1972 71.61
1973 71.70
1974 72.03
1975 72.17
1976 72.43
1977 72.79
1978 73.01
1979 73.33
1980 73.53
1981 73.81
1982 74.15
1983 74.23
1984 74.59
1985 74.76
1986 75.06
1987 75.35
1988 75.54
1989 75.76
1990 75.91
1991 76.03
1992 76.38
1993 76.49
1994 76.80
1995 76.96
1996 77.22
1997 77.58
1998 77.80
1999 78.02
2000 78.28
2001 78.60
2002 78.68
2003 78.71
2004 79.28
2005 79.43
2006 79.86
2007 80.10
2008 80.30
2009 80.51
2010 80.75
2011 81.23
2012 81.23
2013 81.51
2014 81.94
2015 81.57
2016 81.95
2017 81.93
2018 82.05
2019 82.33
2020 81.54

Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in Euro area was 79.02 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79.85 in 2019 and a minimum value of 66.64 in 1960.

Definition: Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Popu

See also:

Year Value
1960 66.64
1961 66.95
1962 66.86
1963 66.98
1964 67.39
1965 67.44
1966 67.70
1967 67.80
1968 67.80
1969 67.75
1970 68.10
1971 68.15
1972 68.48
1973 68.55
1974 68.83
1975 68.91
1976 69.14
1977 69.46
1978 69.66
1979 69.96
1980 70.15
1981 70.42
1982 70.77
1983 70.85
1984 71.17
1985 71.36
1986 71.69
1987 71.96
1988 72.14
1989 72.35
1990 72.50
1991 72.57
1992 72.92
1993 73.07
1994 73.38
1995 73.55
1996 73.87
1997 74.30
1998 74.55
1999 74.81
2000 75.09
2001 75.46
2002 75.61
2003 75.72
2004 76.27
2005 76.46
2006 76.88
2007 77.17
2008 77.46
2009 77.68
2010 77.94
2011 78.41
2012 78.49
2013 78.82
2014 79.27
2015 78.99
2016 79.36
2017 79.43
2018 79.55
2019 79.85
2020 79.02

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality