# EU countries by healthy life years at 65, 2024

All 26 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2024, so the places are comparable. 1 EU countries have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `healthy_life_years_at_65`
- Unit: years
- Definition: Number of further years a person aged 65 can expect to live without an activity limitation due to health problems, if current mortality and current rates of reported limitation persist. Both sexes.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Healthy life years in absolute value at 65, total (hlth_hlye) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/hlth_hlye/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-18
- Citation: Eurostat. Healthy life years in absolute value at 65, total (hlth_hlye). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/hlth_hlye/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-18.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/healthy-life-years-at-65/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | years |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Sweden | 14.2 |
| 2 | Italy | 13.1 |
| 3 | Spain | 12.5 |
| 4 | Ireland | 12.3 |
| 5 | Malta | 12.2 |
| 6 | Bulgaria | 11.9 |
| 7 | Belgium | 11.8 |
| 7 | Slovenia | 11.8 |
| 9 | Denmark | 11.3 |
| 10 | France | 10.9 |
| 11 | Greece | 10.1 |
| 12 | Portugal | 9.8 |
| 13 | Finland | 9.6 |
| 13 | Netherlands | 9.6 |
| 15 | Poland | 9.3 |
| 16 | Austria | 9.2 |
| 17 | Lithuania | 8.9 |
| 18 | Germany | 8.6 |
| 19 | Cyprus | 8.2 |
| 20 | Czechia | 8 |
| 21 | Estonia | 7.6 |
| 21 | Hungary | 7.6 |
| 23 | Romania | 7 |
| 24 | Croatia | 6.8 |
| 25 | Slovakia | 4.9 |
| 26 | Latvia | 4.2 |