The vast majority of European countries achieved best values in life expectancy in 2019, the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic. Greece is rare exception to this pattern - in it, the peak of the average life expectancy occurred in 2018.
Eurostat (2018—2022)
[edit]The division of Greece into territorial units 2 level (NUTS 2) coincides with the division of Greece into regions. By default the table is sorted by 2022.
code | region | 2018 | 2018 →2019 |
2019 | 2019 →2021 |
2021 | 2021 →2022 |
2022 | 2018 →2022 | |||||||||
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overall | male | female | overall | overall | male | female | F Δ M | overall | overall | male | female | F Δ M | ||||||
EL54 | Epirus | 83.6 | 81.3 | 86.0 | 4.7 | 0.4 | 84.0 | 81.7 | 86.4 | 4.7 | −1.4 | 82.6 | 0.1 | 82.7 | 80.0 | 85.7 | 5.7 | −0.9 |
EL41 | North Aegean | 82.9 | 80.2 | 85.6 | 5.4 | −0.2 | 82.7 | 80.3 | 85.2 | 4.9 | 0.4 | 83.1 | −0.8 | 82.3 | 79.9 | 84.9 | 5.0 | −0.6 |
EL42 | South Aegean | 82.7 | 80.3 | 85.1 | 4.8 | −0.4 | 82.3 | 80.5 | 84.3 | 3.8 | −0.7 | 81.6 | 0.1 | 81.7 | 79.5 | 84.1 | 4.6 | −1.0 |
EL43 | Crete | 82.6 | 80.1 | 85.1 | 5.0 | −0.5 | 82.1 | 79.4 | 84.9 | 5.5 | −0.4 | 81.7 | 0.0 | 81.7 | 78.9 | 84.7 | 5.8 | −0.9 |
EL53 | Western Macedonia | 83.0 | 80.6 | 85.4 | 4.8 | −0.5 | 82.5 | 80.1 | 85.0 | 4.9 | −1.8 | 80.7 | 0.7 | 81.4 | 78.5 | 84.6 | 6.1 | −1.6 |
EL61 | Thessaly | 82.6 | 80.0 | 85.3 | 5.3 | −0.3 | 82.3 | 79.7 | 85.1 | 5.4 | −2.3 | 80.0 | 1.1 | 81.1 | 78.5 | 83.8 | 5.3 | −1.5 |
EL30 | Attica | 81.3 | 78.4 | 84.0 | 5.6 | −0.1 | 81.2 | 78.4 | 83.8 | 5.4 | −1.4 | 79.8 | 1.1 | 80.9 | 78.4 | 83.2 | 4.8 | −0.4 |
EL65 | Peloponnese | 82.1 | 79.4 | 85.1 | 5.7 | 0.0 | 82.1 | 79.5 | 84.9 | 5.4 | −1.3 | 80.8 | 0.0 | 80.8 | 78.3 | 83.6 | 5.3 | −1.3 |
EL64 | Central Greece | 82.3 | 79.6 | 85.1 | 5.5 | −0.5 | 81.8 | 79.5 | 84.2 | 4.7 | −1.3 | 80.5 | 0.2 | 80.7 | 78.0 | 83.6 | 5.6 | −1.6 |
EL62 | Ionian Islands | 81.3 | 79.2 | 83.5 | 4.3 | 0.1 | 81.4 | 79.6 | 83.2 | 3.6 | −0.7 | 80.7 | −0.2 | 80.5 | 77.9 | 83.2 | 5.3 | −0.8 |
EL63 | Western Greece | 81.7 | 79.2 | 84.3 | 5.1 | −0.2 | 81.5 | 79.1 | 83.9 | 4.8 | −1.2 | 80.3 | 0.0 | 80.3 | 77.8 | 83.0 | 5.2 | −1.4 |
EL52 | Central Macedonia | 81.9 | 79.5 | 84.3 | 4.8 | −0.2 | 81.7 | 79.4 | 84.0 | 4.6 | −2.4 | 79.3 | 0.9 | 80.2 | 77.5 | 82.8 | 5.3 | −1.7 |
EL51 | Eastern Macedonia and Thrace | 81.4 | 79.2 | 83.5 | 4.3 | −0.3 | 81.1 | 78.9 | 83.2 | 4.3 | −1.8 | 79.3 | 0.6 | 79.9 | 77.3 | 82.5 | 5.2 | −1.5 |
Charts
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Development of life expectancy in Greece according to estimation of the World Bank Group[3]
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Life expectancy with calculated sex gap[3]
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Life expectancy in Greece according to estimation of Our World in Data[4]
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Development of life expectancy in Greece in comparison to some European countries[3]
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Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in Greece on the background of other countries of Europe in 2019[5]
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Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy for males and females separately[5]
See also
[edit]- List of countries by life expectancy
- List of European countries by life expectancy
- Administrative divisions of Greece
- Demographics of Greece
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Life expectancy at birth by sex and NUTS 2 region". Eurostat. 14 March 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2024. — Dataset
- ^ a b "Life expectancy at birth by sex and NUTS 2 region". Eurostat. 14 March 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2024. — Table. For visualization use tab "Map"
- ^ a b c "Life expectancy at birth, total - Greece". World Bank Group.
- ^ "Life expectancy at birth: Greece". Our World in Data.
- ^ a b "Life expectancy and Healthy life expectancy, data by country". World Health Organization. 2020. Retrieved 22 January 2024.