Life expectancy at birth in EU Member States in 2023 (both sexes)

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Source: Eurostat (2023) European Commission, Population and social conditions (Demography, population stock and balance) (accessed 10/01/2023).

Health Inequalities: dietary and physical activity-related determinants are defined in the relevant paragraph of the brief.

EU27 (from 2020) 81.5

Country	Life expectancy at birth
EU27	81.5
Belgium	82.5
Bulgaria	75.8
Czechia	80.0
Denmark	81.9
Germany	81.2
Estonia	78.8
Greece	81.6
Spain	84.0
France	83.1
Croatia	78.6
Italy	83.8
Cyprus	82.5
Latvia	75.9
Lithuania	77.3
Luxembourg	83.4
Hungary	76.9
Malta	83.6
Netherlands	82.0
Austria	81.6
Poland	78.6
Portugal	82.4
Romania	76.6
Slovenia	82.0
Slovakia	78.1
Finland	81.7
Sweden	83.4

References to Meat

Meat ACS (2020), American Cancer Society, Guideline for Diet and Physical Activity for Cancer Prevention De Smet and Vossen (2016), Meat Science 120 (2016)...

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Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) attributable to diets high in red meat map

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Originally Published \| Last Updated	01 Jul 2024 \| 13 Nov 2025
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Life expectancy at birth in EU Member States in 2023 (both sexes)

References to Meat

Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) attributable to diets high in red meat map

Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) attributable to diets high in processed meat map