{"id":402397,"date":"2024-11-05T17:13:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T16:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/11\/05\/alta-longevita-donne-ue-eurostat\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T19:46:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T18:46:13","slug":"record-longevity-for-eu-women-83-years-on-average-vs-78-for-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/11\/05\/record-longevity-for-eu-women-83-years-on-average-vs-78-for-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Record longevity for EU women: 83 years on average vs. 78 for men"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Women hold\u00a0the longevity record in Europe<\/strong>. It is confirmed by Eurostat<\/a> that, in all regions of the EU, the female gender has a higher life expectancy:\u00a083.3 years in 2022<\/strong> versus 77.9 years for men.<\/p>\n

Spain’s absolute land of longevity<\/strong>, with three provinces topping the list for the highest life expectancy for women. The leader<\/strong> is the province of the capital, Madrid<\/strong>, with an expectancy of 87.7 years<\/strong>, followed closely by the communities of Navarre and Castile and Leon.<\/p>\n

Madrid also registers the highest life expectancy for men<\/strong>, with 82.4 years compared to 81 for the other two leaders, with which it stands squarely as the “longest-lived” EU region. However,\u00a0the highest figure for men is recorded for Lichtenstein, one of the European Economic Area states included in the research, which comes in at up to 83 years.<\/p>\n

In contrast,\u00a0Bulgaria records the worst data for female longevity within Europe, with 76.4 years<\/strong>. The lowest actually recorded is in the Mayotte Archipelago<\/strong>, which is technically a French department and\u00a0region<\/strong> despite being in the Indian Ocean and is recorded by Eurostat data.<\/p>\n

For men,<\/strong> as already mentioned, Madrid leads the way. Italy and Sweden<\/strong> also hold their own, with the autonomous province of Trento and the capital Stockholm recording 82.3 years. Eastern Europe does not record high values for male life expectancy<\/strong>, with two Bulgarian provinces among the worst and Latvia with values between 68 and 69 years.<\/p>\n

It follows\u00a0that there are significant differences between\u00a0genders, with the differential in some cases being substantial<\/strong>. One of the examples, among the Baltics, is Latvia, with as many as ten years more life expectancy for women than men<\/strong>. Very small differences for Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, and the Netherlands. Mayotte<\/strong> returns to the rankings, but with the lowest differential<\/strong>,\u00a00.4 years more for women.<\/p>\n

Also to be analyzed are the healthy life years<\/strong>, for\u00a0which Eurostat provides other interesting data<\/a>. The average falls\u00a0for both genders<\/strong> to 62.6 years<\/strong>. Although numerically the average for men is lower, 80 per cent of men’s life expectancy (compared to 75 per cent for women) tends to be without activity limitations<\/a>, that is, without having disabling problems.<\/p>\n

Among EU countries, Malta has the highest number of healthy life years<\/strong> at birth: in 2022, 70.3 years for women and 70.1 for men.<\/p>\n

The worst<\/strong>\u00a0for women<\/strong> are Denmark, Latvia, and the Netherlands<\/strong>, with the\u00a0average number of years lived in good health around 55. Latvia<\/strong> also stands out for men<\/strong> with the lowest figure, along with Slovakia and Denmark. Sweden and Italy also record positive numbers for men in this indicator, averaging around 67 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Eurostat data, Spain has the longevity record for women and men, Eastern European countries rank the lowest. Many fewer the years lived in good health, averaging around 62<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7877,"featured_media":236569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25712],"tags":[28172,29577,26810,27113,27287,29578],"class_list":["post-402397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-eta-en","tag-news-europe-and","tag-givesome","tag-leave-of-life-en","tag-longevity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402397"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402446,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402397\/revisions\/402446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}