In 2022, life expectancy at birth in the EU for women (83.3 years) was 5.4 years higher than for men (77.9 years). This gender gap in favour of women persisted in all of the regions at level 2 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2) for which data are available. Life expectancy at birth for women peaked in […]
The Community of Madrid is the EU region with the highest life expectancy at birth
In 2022, the life expectancy at birth in the EU was 80.6 years, up by 0.5 years from 2021. Over two decades, since 2002, the highest value was recorded in 2019 when life expectancy at birth reached 81.3 years (up 3.7 years compared with 2002). However, after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, this indicator declined to 80.4 in […]