# EU countries by healthy life expectancy at birth, 2021

All 27 values come from World Health Organization for 2021, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `healthy_life_expectancy`
- Unit: years
- Definition: Average number of years a newborn can expect to live in full health (HALE), counting years lived with disease or injury as partly lost. Both sexes. WHO Global Health Estimates, calculated with Sullivan's method from life tables and the rate of years lived with disability.
- Source: World Health Organization, Healthy life expectancy at birth (years), both sexes (WHOSIS_000002) (https://data.who.int/indicators/i/48D9B0C/C64284D)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/world-health-organization
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: World Health Organization, data.who.int. Healthy life expectancy at birth (years), both sexes (WHOSIS_000002) [Indicator]. https://data.who.int/indicators/i/48D9B0C/C64284D (Accessed on 2026-10-12). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. No changes made to source values. WHO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/healthy-life-expectancy/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | years |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Luxembourg | 71.2 |
| 2 | Sweden | 71.1 |
| 3 | Spain | 71.1 |
| 4 | Cyprus | 70.7 |
| 5 | Malta | 70.7 |
| 6 | Italy | 70.6 |
| 7 | France | 70.1 |
| 8 | Denmark | 70.1 |
| 9 | Ireland | 70 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 70 |
| 11 | Finland | 69.9 |
| 12 | Belgium | 69.8 |
| 13 | Austria | 69.8 |
| 14 | Portugal | 69.5 |
| 15 | Slovenia | 69.4 |
| 16 | Germany | 68.9 |
| 17 | Greece | 68.6 |
| 18 | Croatia | 66.8 |
| 19 | Estonia | 66.7 |
| 20 | Czechia | 66.7 |
| 21 | Poland | 65.5 |
| 22 | Slovakia | 64.9 |
| 23 | Hungary | 64.8 |
| 24 | Lithuania | 64.2 |
| 25 | Romania | 63.8 |
| 26 | Latvia | 63.8 |
| 27 | Bulgaria | 62.4 |