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    Il numero di anni di vita sani alla nascita nell’UE nel 2023 era in media 63,3 anni per le donne e 62,8 per gli uomini

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    1. NanorH on

      2023, the number of healthy life years at birth in the EU was 63.1 years on average, 63.3 years for women and 62.8 years for men.

      Life expectancy at birth for women in the EU was, on average, 5.3 years longer than that for men (84.0 years compared with 78.7 years). Healthy life years – free from activity limitations – represent 75% and 80% of the total life expectancy for women and men, respectively. Therefore, on average, men tend to spend a greater proportion of their shorter lives free from activity limitations.

      At country level, there were only 9 EU countries where men registered more healthy life years than women.

      The highest numbers of healthy life years for men were recorded in Malta (71.7 years), followed by Italy (68.5 years) and Sweden (67.2 years), while the lowest ones were found in Latvia (51.2 years), Estonia (56.5 years) and Slovakia (56.8 years).

      Malta also recorded the highest number of healthy life years at birth in 2023 for women (71.1 years), ahead of Bulgaria (71.0 years) and Italy (69.6 years). By contrast, Latvia had the lowest number of healthy life years for women (54.3 years), followed by Denmark (55.4 years) and Finland (55.9 years).

      https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250808-1

    2. DrCluelest on

      Damn, 55 of healthy life years is short, maybe it’s because I’m privilegied and live in South Western France but I don’t know anyone under 70 with health problems. Are outliers like kids or people who have the misfortune to develop a cancer in heir twenties taken into account or ignored in these studies?

    3. Lonely_Ad_3672 on

      So Europe’s saying we get about six decades of prime time – better make the most of it.

    4. TheBraveButJoke on

      So what makes for the slant in favor of man in these statistics. The other way around is pretty obvious it is countries where men are more involved in hard physical labour with both the health and physical risks that entails. But the othere way around is intersting especialy since woman still live significantly longer over all.

    6. Summer_Paris25 on

      Bulgaria being up there is the most unexpected fact of this chart

    7. red_and_black_cat on

      As they were decades ago so, life expectancy has climbed to more than 80 but you see more and more old people with more or less severe health problems.
      Thanks to the advances in medicine you may live a lot longer but is it a real advantage?

    9. batmantis_ on

      And they’ll be pushing retirement ages into the 70s soon probably. So you can enjoy no retirement 🤣

    10. angelosnt on

      This is why raising the retirement age continually is not effective. Very many sick days and reduced productivity in the last period of compulsory working age, instead of bringing in and training younger workers. A later retirement age is of no benefit to the economy or the workplace. The way governments generate money for pensions needs to be rethought and brought in line with the investment practices of private pension funds.

    11. smors on

      “**Healthy life years**, abbreviated as **HLY** and also called **disability-free life expectancy** (**DFLE**), is defined as the number of years that a person is expected to continue to live in a healthy condition (i.e. without any activity limitation).”

      So, people born with a handicap will be defined to have no healthy life years, which is going to really skew the statistic.

    13. Scary_Woodpecker_110 on

      Yes let’s increase pension age up to 67 and even 70…when the accountants in government meet reality.

    14. 14_In_Duck on

      It is weird that healthy life years are higher for men than women in Sweden, when the life expectancy is much greater for women than men (3.1 yrs difference in favor of women). But I guess mental health in certain socioeconomic groups really tilt the balance.

    15. atchijov on

      I am highly suspicious of this numbers. I know personally many people who are much older than 60 but still in good enough health to enjoy the life. Could it be that Netherlands are so low because some minot health condition reported as “problem” while on Malta it gets completely ignored?

    16. Moosplauze on

      Exception for Malta when you’re a journalist reporting on corruption.

    17. Frosty_Manager_1035 on

      How do they define healthy? Is the some specification? Do they mean cancer free? Or not on any medications for htn? Wildly different clinical meanings for ability to enjoy life.

    18. PlatypusOk5108 on

      The miracles of EEVO and walking around. As a country Italy doesn’t even have the healthiest habits, with late dinners, sweet breakfasts, and not much of a sports culture as other European countries. But every dish gets some high quality eevo on top and we generally walk everywhere. 

    19. Diagoras21 on

      This is why we shouldn’t treat the elderly the same as the young. Their situation will only get worse anyway and the costs will grow exponentially. We shouldn’t focus on prolonging life but on relieving pain.

    22. RustCohle_23 on

      Wait what? So our life expectancy is one of the lowest in Europe, but we have one of the highest number of healthy years?
      So what does that mean? We are all fine and dandy for 50 years and then say “fuck it, enough of this shit”?

    27. GinofromUkraine on

      I really wish I could see these figures for Ukraine now.

    28. Schneehenry3000 on

      Lucky me got diagnosed with asthma and rheumatism by the age of 31 and 32.

      Im happy to bring the average down.

    29. NoEatBatman on

      I expected Romania to be dead last, never thought Latvia had it this bad

    30. venomtail on

      Without fail for every post in the last month we’ve been in the top 3 for doing the worst… Hurraaaah I guess 🤘🏻🦅🦅🦅🇱🇻

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