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Where in Europe do people live longest?

Switzerland comes top at 84.2 years and Moldova bottom at 72.0 years. The EU-27 figure is 81.5 years.

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Period life expectancy at birth: how long a newborn would live if the death rates of that year stayed the same all their life.

These are survey estimates, so each comes with sampling error. Countries close together in the table may not really differ; treat near neighbours as roughly equal rather than as a strict ranking.

Most figures are for 2024; a few countries' latest figure is from 2021, shown in the table.

Countryperiod life expectancyYear
Switzerland84.2 years2024
Liechtenstein84.2 years2024
Spain84.0 years2024
Sweden83.8 years2024
Italy83.7 years2024
Cyprus83.5 years2024
Luxembourg83.2 years2024
Norway83.2 years2024
Ireland83.1 years2024
France83.0 years2024p
Malta83.0 years2024
Iceland82.8 years2024
Portugal82.5 years2024
Belgium82.4 years2024
Finland82.2 years2024
Austria82.1 years2024
Slovenia82.1 years2024
Denmark82.0 years2024
Greece81.9 years2024
Netherlands81.9 years2024
Germany81.2 years2024
Albania80.4 years2024
Czechia80.1 years2024
Estonia79.4 years2024
Türkiye79.0 years2024
Croatia78.9 years2024
Poland78.5 years2024p
Slovakia78.4 years2024
Montenegro77.6 years2024
Lithuania77.5 years2024
Hungary76.8 years2024
Romania76.5 years2024
Latvia76.4 years2024
Serbia76.2 years2024
Bulgaria75.8 years2024
Georgia74.9 years2024
North Macedonia73.2 years2021
Moldova72.0 years2024

p = provisional figure, which may be revised.

How do we know?

Source: Eurostat (European Commission), Eurostat demo_mlexpec: Life expectancy by age and sex. Source: Eurostat (demo_mlexpec), Life expectancy by age and sex. Reuse authorised with acknowledgement. Eurostat copyright and licence policy (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; CC BY 4.0 for Commission content).

What kind of number: Published by the source; An estimate from a survey or statistical model.

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