Eurostat: Life expectancy in Bulgaria rose by close to five years over three decades
In 2024, life expectancy at birth in Bulgaria was 75.8 years, an increase of 4.9 years compared with the figure of 70.9 in 1994, according to data posted on March 13 by European Union statistics agency Eurostat.
The figure in 2024 was unchanged from 2023, and higher than the 74.2 years in 2022 and 71.2 years in 2021, the last-mentioned the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In 2014, life expectancy at birth in Bulgaria was 74.5 years, according to Eurostat.
In 2024, life expectancy at birth in the EU was 81.5 years, indicating a 0.1-year increase from 2023. Life expectancy in the EU decreased in 2020 (80.4 years) and 2021 (80.1 years) due to the Covid-19 pandemic but has since then recovered and reached values higher than in 2019 (81.3 years), Eurostat said.
In 2024, life expectancy at birth for women in the EU reached 84.1 years (up by 0.1 years compared with 2023), while for men it was 78.9 years (+0.2 years). This indicates that women are expected to live 5.2 years longer than men.
This gap varied considerably among EU countries. In Latvia, women were expected to live 9.8 years longer than men, followed by Lithuania (8.6 years) and Estonia (8.4 years). The smallest gender gaps were in the Netherlands (2.8 years), Sweden (3.1 years) and Ireland (3.4 years).
In Bulgaria in 2024, life expectancy at birth was 79.5 years for females and 72.2 years for males.
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