Health
Healthy life years at birth
Years expected to be lived without activity limitation, at birth. Published at country level only.
- Cities compared
- 36
- Median
- 63.1 yrs
- Lowest · Bratislava
- 57.1 yrs
- Highest · Milan
- 73.4 yrs
The reference is the median of the 36 cities published here, not a European average. Eurostat's EU aggregates are not collected yet, and deriving one from these cities would invent a figure no source publishes.
Ordered best first
This measure has stated that a higher value is better for a household choosing where to settle, so the order and the colour follow from it. Cities with the same value share a rank. This orders one measure; it is not a ranking of cities.
Every value is published at the same geographic level: Country. Periods 2022 to 2024. Confidence varies by city and is stated on each row.
Compared cities mix editions (2022, 2024).
- Rank1BolognaItaly
73.4 yrs
Italy · 2024 · confidence grade A · [1] - Rank1MilanItaly
73.4 yrs
Italy · 2024 · confidence grade A · [1] - Rank3BarcelonaSpain
68.6 yrs
Spain · 2024 · confidence grade A · [2] - Rank3ValenciaSpain
68.6 yrs
Spain · 2024 · confidence grade A · [2] - Rank5LjubljanaSlovenia
67.5 yrs
Slovenia · 2024 · confidence grade A · [3] - Rank5StockholmSweden
67.5 yrs
Sweden · 2024 · confidence grade A · [4] - Rank7DublinIreland
66.9 yrs
Ireland · 2024 · confidence grade A · [5] - Rank8LisbonPortugal
64.8 yrs
Portugal · 2024 · confidence grade A · [6] - Rank8OsloNorway
64.8 yrs
Norway · 2024 · confidence grade A · [7] - Rank8PortoPortugal
64.8 yrs
Portugal · 2024 · confidence grade A · [6] - Rank11GdańskPoland
64.7 yrs
Poland · 2024 · confidence grade A · [8] - Rank11WarsawPoland
64.7 yrs
Poland · 2024 · confidence grade A · [8] - Rank11WrocławPoland
64.7 yrs
Poland · 2024 · confidence grade A · [8] - Rank14VilniusLithuania
64.3 yrs
Lithuania · 2024 · confidence grade B · [9] - Rank15BrusselsBelgium
63.9 yrs
Belgium · 2024 · confidence grade A · [10] - Rank16LyonFrance
63.6 yrs
France · 2024 · confidence grade B · [11] - Rank16ParisFrance
63.6 yrs
France · 2024 · confidence grade B · [11] - Rank18SplitCroatia
63.1 yrs
Croatia · 2024 · confidence grade A · [12] - Rank18ZagrebCroatia
63.1 yrs
Croatia · 2024 · confidence grade A · [12] - Rank20BerlinGermany
62.4 yrs
Germany · 2024 · confidence grade A · [13] - Rank20CopenhagenDenmark
62.4 yrs
Denmark · 2024 · confidence grade A · [14] - Rank20HamburgGermany
62.4 yrs
Germany · 2024 · confidence grade A · [13] - Rank20MunichGermany
62.4 yrs
Germany · 2024 · confidence grade A · [13] - Rank20PragueCzechia
62.4 yrs
Czechia · 2024 · confidence grade A · [15] - Rank25GrazAustria
60.4 yrs
Austria · 2024 · confidence grade A · [16] - Rank25SalzburgAustria
60.4 yrs
Austria · 2024 · confidence grade A · [16] - Rank25ViennaAustria
60.4 yrs
Austria · 2024 · confidence grade A · [16] - Rank28Luxembourg CityLuxembourg
60.2 yrs
Luxembourg · 2022 · confidence grade A · [17] - Rank29AmsterdamNetherlands
59.5 yrs
Netherlands · 2024 · confidence grade A · [18] - Rank29The HagueNetherlands
59.5 yrs
Netherlands · 2024 · confidence grade A · [18] - Rank29UtrechtNetherlands
59.5 yrs
Netherlands · 2024 · confidence grade A · [18] - Rank32TallinnEstonia
58.6 yrs
Estonia · 2024 · confidence grade A · [19] - Rank33ZurichSwitzerland
58.0 yrs
Switzerland · 2024 · confidence grade A · [20] - Rank34HelsinkiFinland
57.3 yrs
Finland · 2024 · confidence grade A · [21] - Rank34TampereFinland
57.3 yrs
Finland · 2024 · confidence grade A · [21] - Rank36BratislavaSlovakia
57.1 yrs
Slovakia · 2024 · confidence grade A · [22]
Each bar grows from the median towards the side its value falls on. The two halves are scaled independently, so the lowest and highest values reach their ends even when the spread is uneven: a bar's length is comparable with others on the same side of the median, not across it.
How this measure is built
- Definition
- Years expected to be lived without activity limitation, at birth. Published at country level only.
- Position
- The median, the gap and the rank are arithmetic over the values in this table and can be recomputed from it. They are not a score, carry no weighting, and combine with nothing else on the site.Read the method
22 referencesEvery figure's exact source query
Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Italy. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=IT; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Spain. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=ES; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Slovenia. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=SI; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Sweden. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=SE; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Ireland. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=IE; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Portugal. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=PT; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Norway. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=NO; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Poland. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=PL; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Lithuania. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=LT; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Belgium. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=BE; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). France. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=FR; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Croatia. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=HR; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Germany. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=DE; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Denmark. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=DK; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Czechia. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=CZ; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Austria. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=AT; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Luxembourg. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=LU; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2022Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Netherlands. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=NL; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Estonia. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=EE; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Switzerland. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=CH; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Finland. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=FI; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024Eurostat. Healthy life years by sex (from 2004 onwards). Slovakia. Published 2026-07-17. Retrieved 2026-07-31. Open exact source query
dataset hlth_hlye; geo=SK; hlth_hle=HLY_Y0; sex=T; unit=YR; time=2024