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Where in Europe you live longest
In 2023, a baby born in Comunidad de Madrid (Spain) could expect to live 86.1 years, 12.2 years longer than one born in Severozapaden (Bulgaria). That is the spread across 242 regions in the EU-27. In Germany it ranges from 79.2 in Sachsen-Anhalt to 82.8 in Tübingen.
EU-27 average
Highest region
Lowest region
Years a newborn can expect to live, by NUTS 2 region. Hover for values, click to see a region over time.
Every region, by country
Each dot is a region; the line spans a country's lowest to highest region. Countries are sorted by their national value. The axis stays the same for women, men and total.
Table view: all regions
| Rank | Region | Country | Years | vs EU-27 | Women | Men |
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Sources
- Eurostat: Life expectancy by age, sex and NUTS 2 region (
demo_r_mlifexp) via DBnomics. CC BY 4.0, © European Union. Last updated , retrieved . - Eurostat: Life expectancy by age and sex (EU-27 average) (
demo_mlexpec) via DBnomics. CC BY 4.0, © European Union. Last updated , retrieved . - Eurostat GISCO: NUTS 2024 boundaries, 1:20 million (
NUTS_RG_20M_2024_3035). © EuroGeographics for the administrative boundaries. Retrieved . - The data on this page: CSV, same licence and credit.
Notes
Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn would live if current death rates by age stayed the same. It is a summary of mortality in that year, not a forecast. Regions follow NUTS 2024. Where Eurostat publishes older years only for former regions with different borders (Portugal, the Netherlands, Norway, Croatia), those years are shown as no data (hatched) rather than redrawn. The colour scale is set per sex and stays fixed across years. The dip in 2020–2022 reflects COVID-19; Turkey's 2023 low reflects the February earthquakes. Outermost regions are shown as insets below the map.