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  • Dataset | 17 Feb 2021

Life expectancy at birth, infant mortality rate and standardised mortality rate in the EU

Life expectancy at birth in years, infant mortality rate and standardised mortality rate in the EU

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Life expectancy at birth in years, infant mortality rate and standardised mortality rate in the EU member states

The average of the EU Member States is represented at the bottom of the table. For some countries, estimates of life expectancy stratified by ISCED education level are available. Source: Eurostat

 

 

Country
Life expectancy at birth, 2023
Life expectancy at birth, 2017
Healthy life expectancy, 2021
Infant mortality rate1 2022
Standard mortality rate2 2021
Low education (ISCED 0-2)
Medium education (ISCED 3-4)
Higher Education (ISCED 5-8)
Men
Women
Belgium82.5---64.864.43.4921
Bulgaria75.872.074.876.861.665.17.62 132
Czechia80.0---60.763.42.41 437
Denmark81.9---58.254.84993
Germany81.2---64.766.53.21 045
Estonia78.8---54.958.02.71 322
Ireland:---66.468.03.3914
Greece81.680.081.282.564.766.63.81 079
Spain84.0---63.062.62.8829
France83.1---65.566.93.5848
Croatia78.678.076.180.157.959.351 552
Italy83.882.084.384.667.768.52.8899
Cyprus82.5---64.566.81.41 071
Latvia75.9---52.255.43.81 728
Lithuania77.3---55.459.83.91 623
Luxembourg83.4---62.361.62.8860
Hungary76.972.076.379.161.663.54.51 652
Malta83.6---68.968.55904
Netherlands82.0---61.059.63.61 012
Austria81.6---61.561.33982
Poland78.673.077.081.760.764.64.21 505
Portugal82.481.081.184.259.357.42.91 000
Romania76.673.074.976.257.358.28.41 861
Slovenia82.079.081.183.563.767.31.81 051
Slovakia78.169.077.680.656.257.55.81 676
Finland81.778.081.683.861.661.72.2929
Sweden83.480.082.384.368.967.92.2850
European Union - 27 Member States (from 2020)81.5---63.164.23.31 073

1 Infant mortality rate: deaths of children <1 y.o. per 1 000 live births.

2 Standard mortality rate: death rate of a population adjusted to a standard age distribution. Expressed in deaths per 100 000