European Union Life Expectancy

European Union life expectancy for 2023 was 81.41, a 0.87% increase from 2022.
  • European Union life expectancy for 2022 was 80.71, a 0.51% increase from 2021.
  • European Union life expectancy for 2021 was 80.30, a 0.17% decline from 2020.
  • European Union life expectancy for 2020 was 80.43, a 1.09% decline from 2019.
Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life. The full historical dataset is available for download here: European Union Life Expectancy | Historical Data | 1960 - 2023.