Life expectancy at birth in the EU was 81.5 years in 2024, a 0.1-year increase from 2023, following decreases in 2020 (80.4 years) and 2021 (80.1 years) due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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— last modified 15 February 2016 The European Union has set up a European Medical Corps (EMC) through which teams and equipment from the EU Member States can be rapidly…
— last modified 04 June 2015 Measures to prevent and treat animal diseases such as avian flu or African swine fever were informally agreed by MEPs, the EU’s Latvian Presidency…
— last modified 03 March 2015 West Africa is facing the largest and most complex Ebola epidemic on record. Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are the most affected countries. Over…
— last modified 03 December 2014 The European Commission and the OECD on 3 December unveiled a report entitled Health at a Glance: Europe 2014 on the comparative data on…
— last modified 15 October 2014 The current Ebola outbreak affecting the West Africa region is the worst such outbreak on record. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared it…
