European Union - Life expectancy at birth

Life expectancy at birth, female (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, female (years) in European Union was 83.32 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 84.11 in 2019 and a minimum value of 71.71 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 71.71
1961 72.16
1962 72.12
1963 72.46
1964 72.92
1965 73.08
1966 73.39
1967 73.49
1968 73.66
1969 73.67
1970 74.01
1971 74.17
1972 74.54
1973 74.68
1974 75.01
1975 75.17
1976 75.43
1977 75.76
1978 75.92
1979 76.22
1980 76.31
1981 76.65
1982 76.92
1983 76.99
1984 77.28
1985 77.38
1986 77.62
1987 77.87
1988 78.08
1989 78.28
1990 78.41
1991 78.53
1992 78.86
1993 78.95
1994 79.23
1995 79.38
1996 79.56
1997 79.82
1998 80.05
1999 80.25
2000 80.52
2001 80.82
2002 80.90
2003 80.88
2004 81.42
2005 81.55
2006 81.95
2007 82.13
2008 82.29
2009 82.50
2010 82.75
2011 83.27
2012 83.20
2013 83.46
2014 83.85
2015 83.46
2016 83.86
2017 83.75
2018 83.85
2019 84.11
2020 83.32

Life expectancy at birth, total (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in European Union was 80.46 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.31 in 2019 and a minimum value of 69.02 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 69.02
1961 69.41
1962 69.32
1963 69.61
1964 70.03
1965 70.16
1966 70.43
1967 70.47
1968 70.58
1969 70.53
1970 70.86
1971 70.94
1972 71.31
1973 71.42
1974 71.73
1975 71.81
1976 72.03
1977 72.30
1978 72.43
1979 72.70
1980 72.75
1981 73.09
1982 73.37
1983 73.41
1984 73.67
1985 73.77
1986 74.04
1987 74.27
1988 74.47
1989 74.63
1990 74.73
1991 74.82
1992 75.13
1993 75.26
1994 75.53
1995 75.68
1996 75.93
1997 76.25
1998 76.51
1999 76.75
2000 77.08
2001 77.43
2002 77.53
2003 77.59
2004 78.12
2005 78.27
2006 78.67
2007 78.90
2008 79.13
2009 79.36
2010 79.63
2011 80.14
2012 80.16
2013 80.46
2014 80.87
2015 80.57
2016 80.95
2017 80.93
2018 81.03
2019 81.31
2020 80.46

Life expectancy at birth, male (years)

The value for Life expectancy at birth, male (years) in European Union was 77.75 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 78.66 in 2019 and a minimum value of 66.47 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 66.47
1961 66.80
1962 66.66
1963 66.90
1964 67.28
1965 67.38
1966 67.61
1967 67.60
1968 67.66
1969 67.55
1970 67.87
1971 67.87
1972 68.25
1973 68.33
1974 68.60
1975 68.61
1976 68.80
1977 69.00
1978 69.12
1979 69.35
1980 69.37
1981 69.70
1982 69.98
1983 70.01
1984 70.23
1985 70.35
1986 70.63
1987 70.83
1988 71.04
1989 71.16
1990 71.23
1991 71.28
1992 71.58
1993 71.75
1994 72.01
1995 72.16
1996 72.47
1997 72.85
1998 73.16
1999 73.42
2000 73.81
2001 74.20
2002 74.34
2003 74.47
2004 74.98
2005 75.16
2006 75.56
2007 75.84
2008 76.13
2009 76.37
2010 76.67
2011 77.17
2012 77.27
2013 77.63
2014 78.05
2015 77.82
2016 78.19
2017 78.26
2018 78.35
2019 78.66
2020 77.75

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality