Healthy life years at birth
Number of years a newborn can expect to live without an activity limitation due to health problems, if current mortality and current rates of reported limitation persist. Both sexes.
Combines mortality with the share of people who report being limited for at least six months in activities people usually do because of a health problem (the EU-SILC global activity limitation question). Not the same as the WHO healthy life expectancy (healthy_life_expectancy), which uses a different method. Values depend on how people answer the survey question in each country, so differences between countries partly reflect culture and wording.
Key facts
- Healthy life years at birth in the European Union (27) was 65.2 years in 2024, according to Eurostat, European Commission.
- Italy had the highest healthy life years at birth of 26 EU countries in 2024, at 73.4 years, and Latvia the lowest, at 52.5 years. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.
- Published for 28 places, with figures from 2004 to 2024.
Rankings
EU countries by healthy life years at birth, 2024
Places with data
World, EU and euro area
Countries
- Germany
- France
- Italy
- Spain
- Poland
- Romania
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Czechia
- Portugal
- Finland
- Denmark
- Slovakia
- Greece
- Slovenia
- Austria
Use this data in your AI agent
Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:
Which places have the highest healthy life years at birth? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"healthy_life_years_at_birth","level":"country","within":"European Union (27)"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=healthy_life_years_at_birth&level=country&within=European%20Union%20(27)