European ranking
32 / 35
Improved by 1 positions since the previous year
Sweden: Life expectancy at birth
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Country overview
Sweden
Current reading for Life expectancy at birth in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Life expectancy at birth
Latest value
83.80 Years
Compared with Europe
+3.0 puntos
Sweden is 3.0 points above the European average.
EU: 80.77
Affected population
10.6M
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Life expectancy at birth
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At a glance
Sweden performs more 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 points to broader relative strength.
European comparison in Sweden
In Sweden, Life expectancy stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 83.8 years versus 80.8 years in 2024, a large gap of 3.0 years.
Recent trend
In Sweden, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 83.2 years in 2019 to 83.8 years in 2024. The latest step, from 83.4 years in 2023 to 83.8 years in 2024, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.
Reading within the topic
In Sweden, the evidence for Quality of Life & Household Conditions leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards deterioration and warrant monitoring.