The average life expectancy in the EU grew during the last decade until 2019, when it reached 81.3 years, but it decreased by a year since the coronavirus pandemic.
Thus, the average life expectancy in the EU was 80.1 years. Serbia is in the group of countries where the life expectancy is noticeably shorter, because our fellow citizens live an average of seven years shorter than their EU peers.
In the Belgrade region, life expectancy is 73.8 years, in the region of Šumadija and Central Serbia 72.9, in Vojvodina 72.6, while in the region of Southern and Eastern Serbia the life expectancy is even shorter at 71.9 years, according to Eurostat data.
In terms of the countries in the region, the life expectancy in North Macedonia is 73.2 years, in Montenegro 73.8, in Croatia 76.7and in Slovenia 80.7 years.
According to Eurostat data, the life expectancy of men in Serbia is 70.8 years, while women live six years longer (76.8 years).
The life expectancy of women in the EU is 82.9 years, which is 5.7 years longer than for men, who averaged 77.2 years.
The largest difference in life expectancy was recorded in Latvia, where the life expectancy of women was 9.8 years longer than that of men.
Of the EU countries, women live longest in Spain, with the highest life expectancy at birth in Madrid at 88.2 years, followed by five other regions in Spain.
Apart from Spain, the next longest life expectancy for women is in the Rhône-Alpes region of France and Trentino in Italy (86.7 years).
The longest life expectancy at birth for men is 82.8 years, in Finland (in the island region of Åland), followed by Madrid (82.2 years), Stockholm (82.1 years) and in the north of Europe, Småland och öarna (81.9 years).
(021.rs, 07.11.2023)