Life expectancy at birth, women in Portugal

Life expectancy at birth for women in Portugal was 85.2 years in 2024.

Life expectancy at birth, women Years Data: 1960 to 2024 Source: World Bank

Portugal, 2024 85.2 Years

Change from 2023 −0.1% 2023: 85.3 years

European Union, 2024 84.2 years Official aggregate

Median of European Union (27 countries), 2024 84.2 years Middle value of 27 countries

Position in 2024 22nd of 217 See the full ranking

Life expectancy at birth, women in Portugal over time

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Years. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

A dash means no value was published for that period.

That is a change of −0.1% from 85.3 years in 2023.
Since 2014, when it was 84.4 years, the figure has changed by +0.9%.
Among the 217 countries with data for 2024, Portugal has the 22nd highest value.
The figure for the European Union in 2024 was 84.2 years.

Original producer: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects
Distributed by: World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code: SP.DYN.LE00.FE.IN · dataset details · view at source
Observation period: 1960 to 2024 for Portugal
Provider update: 8 October 2026
Retrieved: 9 November 2026
Published here: 9 November 2026
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution: Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects

The number of years a newborn girl would live if current mortality patterns stayed the same throughout her life.

Population covered: Female newborns

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