European ranking
10 / 35
Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year
Poland: Life expectancy at birth
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Poland
Current reading for Life expectancy at birth in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Life expectancy at birth
Latest value
78.50 Years
Compared with Europe
-2.3 puntos
Poland is 2.3 points below the European average.
EU: 80.77
Affected population
36.5M
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Life expectancy at birth
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At a glance
Poland performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Life expectancy at birth, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Poland
In Poland, Life expectancy stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 78.5 years versus 80.8 years in 2024, a large gap of 2.3 years.
Recent trend
In Poland, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 78.0 years in 2019 to 78.5 years in 2024. The latest value changes little from 78.4 years in 2023, so the improvement continues but with less intensity.
Reading within the topic
In Poland, Quality of Life & Household Conditions shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.