According to INE estimates released this Wednesday, Portuguese life expectancy at birth between 2020 and 2022 was 80.96 years, an increase of 0.01 years for men and a decrease of 0.01 years for women.
Life expectancy at birth was 78.05 years for men and 83.52 years for women, the National Institute of Statistics said, according to which the figures now released, which are compared with the previous quarter, also reflect an increase in mortality. “in a pandemic” covid-19.
“Over one decade, there was an increase in life expectancy of the entire population by 1.18 years, men by 1.38 years and women by 0.92 years, a decrease in mortality at the age of 60 years and older, in men, growth still occurred mainly due to decrease in mortality under the age of 60,” INE elaborated in a Highlight posted online this Wednesday.
Life expectancy at age 65 is estimated at 19.61 years for the entire population. “At age 65, men could expect to live another 17.76 years and women 20.98 years, corresponding to a slight decrease (-0.01 years) for men with no change in life expectancy at age 65. 65 years of women compared to 2019. -2021,” INE emphasized.
Over the past ten years, life expectancy at age 65 has increased by 9.7 months for men and 8.5 months for women.