Life expectancy at birth, by region

The number of years a newborn would live on average if the death rates by age in the region in that year stayed the same throughout life.

Unit: Years Frequency: Annual Coverage: 294 regions and 37 countries and groups as reference 2000 to 2024 Source: Eurostat
Highest in 2024 85.7 years Comunidad de Madrid Lowest in 2024 73.9 years Severozapaden
Regions ranked for 2024 267 Updated by the source on 1 June 2026

267 regions have a value for 2024, the latest period in the data.

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Years. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Life expectancy at birth, by region (years), 2000 to 2024
Period Comunidad de MadridGelderlandSeverozapaden
2024 85.7 years 81.9 years 73.9 years
2023 85.5 years 82.0 years 73.9 years
2022 84.8 years 81.6 years 72.3 years
2021 84.7 years 81.4 years 69.5 years
2020 82.3 years 81.3 years 71.8 years
2019 85.1 years 82.0 years 73.5 years
2018 84.9 years 81.7 years 73.3 years
2017 84.5 years 81.7 years 73.2 years
2016 84.6 years 81.7 years 73.0 years
2015 84.0 years 81.5 years 73.3 years
2014 84.3 yearsb (break in time series) 81.7 yearsb (break in time series) 72.8 yearsb (break in time series)
2013 84.8 years 81.5 years 73.7 years
2012 84.2 years 81.1 years 72.9 years
2011 84.2 years 81.3 years 73.0 years
2010 83.9 years 80.9 years 72.7 years
2009 83.3 years 80.8 years 72.9 years
2008 82.9 years 80.5 years 72.6 years
2007 82.4 years 80.3 years 72.1 years
2006 82.3 years 80.0 years 71.9 years
2005 81.6 years 79.3 years 71.5 years
2004 81.4 years 79.1 years 71.7 years
2003 80.7 years 78.4 years 72.0 years
2002 81.0 years 78.4 years 71.9 years
2001 80.8 years 78.4 years 71.6 years
2000 80.7 years – 71.4 years

Flags: b break in time series . A dash means no value was published.

In short

  • Among the 267 regions with a value for 2024, the highest is Comunidad de Madrid (85.7 years) and the lowest Severozapaden (73.9 years).
  • Half of the regions are above 81.9 years and half below.
  • From 2023 to 2024 the value rose in 202 regions and fell in 36.

About this measure

Definition
The number of years a newborn would live on average if the death rates by age in the region in that year stayed the same throughout life.
Unit
Years
Frequency
Annual
Changes are shown as
Percent change

Source and dates

Original producer
Eurostat
Source
Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union
Dataset or series code
demo_r_mlifexp · dataset details · view at source
Selection
freq=A sex=T age=Y_LT1 unit=YR
Observation period
2000 to 2024
Provider update
1 June 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
Eurostat reuse policy (attribution)
Attribution
Source: Eurostat

All regions in 2024 Every value is for 2024, so the regions are compared at the same point in time.

  1. 1 Comunidad de Madrid 85.7 years
  2. 2 Ticino 85.2 years
  3. 3 Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano/Bozen 85.0 years
  4. 4 Provincia Autonoma di Trento 85.0 years
  5. 5 Stockholm 85.0 years
  6. 6 Castilla y León 84.8 years
  7. 7 Comunidad Foral de Navarra 84.7 years
  8. 8 País Vasco 84.7 years
  9. 9 Ile de France 84.6 yearsp (provisional)
  10. 10 Région lémanique 84.6 years
  11. 11 Veneto 84.6 years
  12. 12 Zentralschweiz 84.6 years
  13. 13 Lombardia 84.4 years
  14. 14 Marche 84.4 years
  15. 15 Aragón 84.3 years
  16. 16 Cataluña 84.3 years
  17. 17 Emilia-Romagna 84.3 years
  18. 18 Friuli-Venezia Giulia 84.2 years
  19. 19 Galicia 84.2 years
  20. 20 Liechtenstein 84.2 years
  21. 21 Rhône-Alpes 84.2 yearsp (provisional)
  22. 22 Toscana 84.2 years
  23. 23 Zürich 84.2 years
  24. 24 Nordwestschweiz 84.1 years
  25. 25 Umbria 84.1 years
  26. 26 Cantabria 84.0 years
  27. 27 Corse 84.0 yearsp (provisional)
  28. 28 Småland med öarna 84.0 years
  29. 29 Castilla-La Mancha 83.9 years
  30. 30 La Rioja 83.9 years
  31. 31 Ostschweiz 83.9 years
  32. 32 Prov. Vlaams-Brabant 83.9 years
  33. 33 Abruzzo 83.8 years
  34. 34 Espace Mittelland 83.8 years
  35. 35 Liguria 83.8 years
  36. 36 Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur 83.8 yearsp (provisional)
  37. 37 Midi-Pyrénées 83.7 yearsp (provisional)
  38. 38 Piemonte 83.7 years
  39. 39 Sydsverige 83.7 years
  40. 40 Västsverige 83.7 years
  41. 41 Östra Mellansverige 83.7 years
  42. 42 Ipeiros 83.6 years
  43. 43 Lazio 83.6 years
  44. 44 Vestlandet 83.6 years
  45. 45 Aquitaine 83.5 yearsp (provisional)
  46. 46 Basilicata 83.5 years
  47. 47 Comunitat Valenciana 83.5 years
  48. 48 Illes Balears 83.5 years
  49. 49 Kýpros 83.5 years
  50. 50 Pays de la Loire 83.5 yearsp (provisional)
  51. 51 Puglia 83.5 years
  52. 52 Región de Murcia 83.5 years
  53. 53 Oslo og Viken 83.4 years
  54. 54 Principado de Asturias 83.4 years
  55. 55 Prov. Limburg 83.4 years
  56. 56 Trøndelag 83.4 years
  57. 57 Ciudad de Melilla 83.3 years
  58. 58 Norra Mellansverige 83.3 years
  59. 59 Prov. Antwerpen 83.3 years
  60. 60 Tirol 83.3 years
  61. 61 Åland 83.3 years
  62. 62 Eastern and Midland 83.2 years
  63. 63 Extremadura 83.2 years
  64. 64 Luxembourg 83.2 years
  65. 65 Northern and Western 83.2 years
  66. 66 Sardegna 83.2 years
  67. 67 Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste 83.2 years
  68. 68 Zahodna Slovenija 83.2 years
  69. 69 Norte 83.1 years
  70. 70 Prov. Brabant wallon 83.1 years
  71. 71 Prov. West-Vlaanderen 83.1 years
  72. 72 Centro 83.0 years
  73. 73 Languedoc-Roussillon 83.0 yearsp (provisional)
  74. 74 Malta 83.0 years
  75. 75 Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen 83.0 years
  76. 76 Salzburg 83.0 years
  77. 77 Voreio Aigaio 83.0 years
  78. 78 Alsace 82.9 yearsp (provisional)
  79. 79 Andalucía 82.9 years
  80. 80 Canarias 82.9 years
  81. 81 Grande Lisboa 82.9 years
  82. 82 Vorarlberg 82.9 years
  83. 83 Agder og Sør-Østlandet 82.8 years
  84. 84 Helsinki-Uusimaa 82.8 years
  85. 85 Mellersta Norrland 82.8 years
  86. 86 Ísland 82.8 years
  87. 87 Auvergne 82.7 yearsp (provisional)
  88. 88 Calabria 82.7 years
  89. 89 Molise 82.7 years
  90. 90 Oberbayern 82.7 years
  91. 91 Southern 82.7 years
  92. 92 Övre Norrland 82.7 years
  93. 93 Centre — Val de Loire 82.6 yearsp (provisional)
  94. 94 Nord-Norge 82.6 years
  95. 95 Sicilia 82.6 years
  96. 96 Bretagne 82.5 yearsp (provisional)
  97. 97 Poitou-Charentes 82.5 yearsp (provisional)
  98. 98 Tübingen 82.5 years
  99. 99 Bourgogne 82.4 yearsp (provisional)
  100. 100 Hovedstaden 82.4 years
  101. 101 Kriti 82.4 years
  102. 102 Limousin 82.4 yearsp (provisional)
  103. 103 Oberösterreich 82.4 years
  104. 104 Oeste e Vale do Tejo 82.4 years
  105. 105 Steiermark 82.4 years
  106. 106 Utrecht 82.4 years
  107. 107 Basse-Normandie 82.3 yearsp (provisional)
  108. 108 Dytiki Makedonia 82.3 years
  109. 109 Franche-Comté 82.3 yearsp (provisional)
  110. 110 Kärnten 82.3 years
  111. 111 Länsi-Suomi 82.3 years
  112. 112 Midtjylland 82.3 years
  113. 113 Notio Aigaio 82.3 years
  114. 114 Stuttgart 82.3 years
  115. 115 Freiburg 82.2 years
  116. 116 Innlandet 82.2 years
  117. 117 Karlsruhe 82.2 years
  118. 118 Thessalia 82.2 years
  119. 119 Dresden 82.1 years
  120. 120 Noord-Holland 82.1 years
  121. 121 Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest 82.1 years
  122. 122 Schwaben 82.1 years
  123. 123 Sterea Elláda 82.1 years
  124. 124 Zeeland 82.1 years
  125. 125 Campania 82.0 years
  126. 126 Darmstadt 82.0 years
  127. 127 Noord-Brabant 82.0 years
  128. 128 Unterfranken 82.0 years
  129. 129 Zuid-Holland 82.0 years
  130. 130 Attiki 81.9 years
  131. 131 Ciudad de Ceuta 81.9 years
  132. 132 Etelä-Suomi 81.9 years
  133. 133 Flevoland 81.9 years
  134. 134 Gelderland 81.9 years
  135. 135 Haute-Normandie 81.9 yearsp (provisional)
  136. 136 La Réunion 81.9 yearsp (provisional)
  137. 137 Praha 81.9 years
  138. 138 Burgenland 81.8 years
  139. 139 Champagne-Ardenne 81.8 yearsp (provisional)
  140. 140 Dytiki Elláda 81.8 years
  141. 141 Niederösterreich 81.8 years
  142. 142 Peloponnisos 81.8 years
  143. 143 Syddanmark 81.8 years
  144. 144 Friesland 81.7 years
  145. 145 Kentriki Makedonia 81.7 years
  146. 146 Lorraine 81.7 yearsp (provisional)
  147. 147 Overijssel 81.7 years
  148. 148 Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi 81.7 years
  149. 149 Limburg 81.6 years
  150. 150 Picardie 81.6 yearsp (provisional)
  151. 151 Algarve 81.5 years
  152. 152 Martinique 81.5 yearsp (provisional)
  153. 153 Península de Setúbal 81.5 years
  154. 154 Drenthe 81.4 years
  155. 155 Leipzig 81.4 years
  156. 156 Mittelfranken 81.4 years
  157. 157 Nordjylland 81.4 years
  158. 158 Região Autónoma da Madeira 81.4 years
  159. 159 Sjælland 81.4 years
  160. 160 Köln 81.3 years
  161. 161 Nord-Pas de Calais 81.3 yearsp (provisional)
  162. 162 Vzhodna Slovenija 81.3 years
  163. 163 Berlin 81.2 years
  164. 164 Detmold 81.2 years
  165. 165 Hamburg 81.2 years
  166. 166 Niederbayern 81.2 years
  167. 167 Oberpfalz 81.2 years
  168. 168 Rheinhessen-Pfalz 81.2 years
  169. 169 Wien 81.2 years
  170. 170 Guadeloupe 81.1 yearsp (provisional)
  171. 171 Ionia Nisia 81.1 years
  172. 172 Brandenburg 81.0 years
  173. 173 Alentejo 80.9 years
  174. 174 Koblenz 80.9 years
  175. 175 Prov. Namur 80.9 years
  176. 176 Jug 80.8 yearsb (break in time series)
  177. 177 Münster 80.8 years
  178. 178 Oberfranken 80.8 years
  179. 179 Schleswig-Holstein 80.8 years
  180. 180 Trier 80.8 years
  181. 181 Chemnitz 80.7 years
  182. 182 Groningen 80.7 years
  183. 183 Lüneburg 80.7 years
  184. 184 Prov. Liège 80.7 years
  185. 185 Qender 80.7 yearsb (break in time series)
  186. 186 Thüringen 80.7 years
  187. 187 Bratislavský kraj 80.6 years
  188. 188 Gießen 80.6 years
  189. 189 Hannover 80.6 years
  190. 190 Jihovýchod 80.6 years
  191. 191 Kassel 80.6 years
  192. 192 Prov. Luxembourg 80.6 years
  193. 193 Weser-Ems 80.6 years
  194. 194 Braunschweig 80.5 years
  195. 195 Anatoliki Makedonia, Thraki 80.4 years
  196. 196 Düsseldorf 80.4 years
  197. 197 Severovýchod 80.4 years
  198. 198 Jihozápad 80.3 years
  199. 199 Grad Zagreb 80.2 years
  200. 200 Střední Čechy 80.2 years
  201. 201 Arnsberg 80.1 years
  202. 202 Guyane 80.1 yearsp (provisional)
  203. 203 Prov. Hainaut 80.0 years
  204. 204 Jadranska Hrvatska 79.9 years
  205. 205 Saarland 79.9 years
  206. 206 Střední Morava 79.9 years
  207. 207 Warszawski stołeczny 79.9 years
  208. 208 Bremen 79.7 years
  209. 209 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 79.7 years
  210. 210 Małopolskie 79.6 years
  211. 211 Podkarpackie 79.5 years
  212. 212 Sachsen-Anhalt 79.5 years
  213. 213 Eesti 79.4 years
  214. 214 Podlaskie 79.3 years
  215. 215 Veri 79.2 yearsb (break in time series)
  216. 216 Região Autónoma dos Açores 79.1 years
  217. 217 Budapest 78.9 years
  218. 218 Moravskoslezsko 78.7 years
  219. 219 Pomorskie 78.7 years
  220. 220 Lubelskie 78.6 years
  221. 221 Opolskie 78.6 years
  222. 222 Sjeverna Hrvatska 78.5 years
  223. 223 Wielkopolskie 78.5 years
  224. 224 Západné Slovensko 78.4 years
  225. 225 Severozápad 78.3 years
  226. 226 Kujawsko-pomorskie 78.2 years
  227. 227 Východné Slovensko 78.2 years
  228. 228 Świętokrzyskie 78.2 years
  229. 229 Dolnośląskie 78.1 years
  230. 230 Lubuskie 78.0 years
  231. 231 Sostinės regionas 78.0 years
  232. 232 Stredné Slovensko 78.0 years
  233. 233 Śląskie 78.0 years
  234. 234 Warmińsko-mazurskie 77.9 years
  235. 235 Zachodniopomorskie 77.9 years
  236. 236 Bucureşti-Ilfov 77.8 yearse (estimated)
  237. 237 Mazowiecki regionalny 77.7 years
  238. 238 Crna Gora 77.6 yearsb (break in time series)
  239. 239 Nyugat-Dunántúl 77.5 years
  240. 240 Pest 77.5 years
  241. 241 Łódzkie 77.5 years
  242. 242 Beogradski region 77.4 yearsb (break in time series)
  243. 243 Panonska Hrvatska 77.2 years
  244. 244 Vidurio ir vakarų Lietuvos regionas 77.2 years
  245. 245 Közép-Dunántúl 77.1 years
  246. 246 Centru 77.0 yearse (estimated)
  247. 247 Yugozapaden 77.0 years
  248. 248 Sud-Vest Oltenia 76.9 yearse (estimated)
  249. 249 Dél-Dunántúl 76.8 years
  250. 250 Nord-Vest 76.6 yearse (estimated)
  251. 251 Dél-Alföld 76.5 years
  252. 252 Latvija 76.4 years
  253. 253 Region Sumadije i Zapadne Srbije 76.4 yearsb (break in time series)
  254. 254 Vest 76.4 yearse (estimated)
  255. 255 Sud-Muntenia 76.3 yearse (estimated)
  256. 256 Yuzhen tsentralen 76.1 years
  257. 257 Sud-Est 75.7 yearse (estimated)
  258. 258 Yugoiztochen 75.7 years
  259. 259 Region Juzne i Istocne Srbije 75.6 yearsb (break in time series)
  260. 260 Nord-Est 75.5 yearse (estimated)
  261. 261 Észak-Alföld 75.5 years
  262. 262 Severoiztochen 75.4 years
  263. 263 Region Vojvodine 75.3 yearsb (break in time series)
  264. 264 Észak-Magyarország 75.1 years
  265. 265 Severen tsentralen 74.9 years
  266. 266 Mayotte 74.5 yearsp (provisional)
  267. 267 Severozapaden 73.9 years
  268. Albania 80.4 yearsb (break in time series)
  269. Austria 82.1 years
  270. Belgium 82.4 years
  271. Bulgaria 75.8 years
  272. Croatia 78.9 years
  273. Cyprus 83.5 years
  274. Czechia 80.1 years
  275. Denmark 82.0 years
  276. Estonia 79.4 years
  277. Finland 82.2 years
  278. France 83.0 yearsp (provisional)
  279. Germany 81.2 years
  280. Greece 81.9 years
  281. Hungary 76.8 years
  282. Iceland 82.8 years
  283. Ireland 83.1 years
  284. Italy 83.7 years
  285. Latvia 76.4 years
  286. Liechtenstein 84.2 years
  287. Lithuania 77.5 years
  288. Luxembourg 83.2 years
  289. Malta 83.0 years
  290. Montenegro 77.6 yearsb (break in time series)
  291. Netherlands 81.9 years
  292. Norway 83.2 years
  293. Poland 78.5 yearsep (estimated, provisional)
  294. Portugal 82.5 years
  295. Romania 76.5 yearse (estimated)
  296. Serbia 76.2 yearsb (break in time series)
  297. Slovakia 78.4 years
  298. Slovenia 82.1 years
  299. Spain 84.0 years
  300. Sweden 83.8 years
  301. Switzerland 84.2 years
  302. Türkiye 79.0 yearsb (break in time series)
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