# EU countries by healthy life years at birth, 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_birth`
- Unit: years
- Definition: 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.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Healthy life years in absolute value at birth, 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 birth, 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-birth/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | years |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Italy | 73.4 |
| 2 | Malta | 70.6 |
| 3 | Greece | 69.9 |
| 4 | Bulgaria | 69.1 |
| 5 | Spain | 68.6 |
| 6 | Slovenia | 67.5 |
| 6 | Sweden | 67.5 |
| 8 | Ireland | 66.9 |
| 9 | Romania | 65 |
| 10 | Portugal | 64.8 |
| 11 | Poland | 64.7 |
| 12 | Lithuania | 64.3 |
| 13 | Belgium | 63.9 |
| 13 | Cyprus | 63.9 |
| 15 | France | 63.6 |
| 16 | Hungary | 63.3 |
| 17 | Croatia | 63.1 |
| 18 | Czechia | 62.4 |
| 18 | Denmark | 62.4 |
| 18 | Germany | 62.4 |
| 21 | Austria | 60.4 |
| 22 | Netherlands | 59.5 |
| 23 | Estonia | 58.6 |
| 24 | Finland | 57.3 |
| 25 | Slovakia | 57.1 |
| 26 | Latvia | 52.5 |