European ranking
12 / 35
Improved by 5 positions since the previous year
Turkey: Life expectancy at birth
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Turkey
Current reading for Life expectancy at birth in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Life expectancy at birth
Latest value
79.00 Years
Compared with Europe
-1.8 puntos
Turkey is 1.8 points below the European average.
EU: 80.77
Affected population
85.7M
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Life expectancy at birth
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At a glance
Turkey performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Life expectancy at birth, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader pressure.
European comparison in Turkey
In Turkey, Life expectancy is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 79.0 years versus 80.8 years in 2024, with a gap of 1.8 years.
Recent trend
In Turkey, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 79.1 years in 2019 to 79.0 years in 2024. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 77.3 years in 2023 to 79.0 years in 2024, departs from that stability with an improvement.
Reading within the topic
In Turkey, the evidence for Quality of Life & Household Conditions leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.