According to idealista, European citizens can expect to live longer. Life expectancy at birth in one of the 27 European Union (EU) countries stood at 81.4 years in 2023, exceeding the value recorded before the Covid-19 pandemic. In Portugal, life expectancy also rose to 82.5 years.

“In 2023, life expectancy at birth in the EU was 81.4 years, marking an increase of 0.8 years compared to 2022. After having decreased in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic, life expectancy reached higher values ​​compared to 2019 [before Covid-19]. This was also the highest value recorded since 2002, reflecting a total increase of 3.8 years”, explains Eurostat in a press release published on 14 March.

Those born in Portugal also have a longer life expectancy : this indicator rose in 2023 to 82.5 years, above the 81.8 years recorded in the previous year and above the 81.9 years recorded in 2019, before the pandemic crisis.

Eurostat data also reveals that life expectancy in Portugal for 2023 differs depending on the region of the country in which one is born, being much higher in the North of the country:

  • North (83.2 years);
  • Center (82.9 years);
  • West and Tagus Valley (82.2 years);
  • Greater Lisbon (82.8 years);
  • Setúbal Peninsula (81.4 years);
  • Alentejo (80.8 years);
  • Algarve (81 years old);
  • Autonomous Region of the Azores (79.5 years);
  • Autonomous Region of Madeira (80.6 years)

In Portugal – as in the other Member States – women are also expected to live longer (85.3 years) than men (79.5 years). This is a difference of 5.8 years of life, higher than that recorded in the EU as a whole (5.3 years).