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    Madrid region has highest life expectancy in EU

    npsBy nps16 March 2024 No Comments2 Mins Read
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    (LUXEMBOURG) – The region with the highest life expectancy at birth in the European Union in 2022 was the Spain’s region of Comunidad de Madrid at 85.2 years, the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat reported Thursday.

    Figures recently released by the EU’s statistics agency show that Madrid was followed by Provincia Autonoma di Trento in Italy (84.4 years), Ile de France in France (84.1 years), Stockholm in Sweden (84.0 years), and Comunidad Foral de Navarra in Spain (83.9 years).

    On the other hand, among 5 EU regions with the lowest life expectancy at birth, 4 were in Bulgaria: Severozapaden (72.3 years), Severen tsentralen (73.2 years), Yugoiztochen (73.7 years), Severoiztochen (74.1 years); and one in Hungary, Észak-Magyarország (74.1 years).

    The life expectancy at birth in the European Union as a whole was 80.6 years in 2022, up by 0.5 years from 2021, say Eurostat.

    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 2020 and to 80.1 years in 2021. In 2022, life expectancy at birth in the EU rose but did not reach the 2019 value.

    For women in the EU, life expectancy at birth stood at 83.3 years in 2022 (up by 0.4 compared with 2021 but down by -0.7 compared with 2019) and for men at 77.9 years (a 0.7 year increase compared with 2021 but a -0.6 decrease compared with 2019).

    In 2022, life expectancy at birth for women in the EU was 5.4 years longer than that for men, with variations between EU countries. In Latvia, women were expected to live 10.0 years longer than men, followed by Estonia and Lithuania (both 8.7 years).

    The smallest gender gaps were in the Netherlands (2.9 years), Ireland (3.3 years), and Sweden (3.4 years).

    Further information, Eurostat

    Statistics Explained article on mortality and life expectancy statistics

    Dedicated page on population and demography

    Database on demography, population stock and balance

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