Occupational safety and health in Europe - state and trends 2023 
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work – EU-OSHA 78 
Table 22: Life expectancy by age and sex - in years at the age of 65189  
 
(bep): break in time series, estimated, provisional, (e): estimated, (p): provisional, (b): break in time series 
 
The development of life expectancy and causes of lower mortality in the EU are summarised each year 
by the OECD/EU in their joint overview ‘Health at a glance’. 190 
‘Steady and substantial reductions in mortality rates from IHD (Ischaemic heart diseases), strokes and 
other circulatory diseases were the main driver of increases in life expectancy in previous decades, but 
these reductions have slowed down over the past five to ten years in several Western European 
countries (e.g. France, Germany and the United Kingdom). This has contributed to the slowdown in life 
expectancy improvements.’ (OECD/The King’s Fund, 2020)191  
The overview includes the life expectancy of persons at birth and being 65 years old, in the EU plus 
neighbouring countries that report to the EU. The geographical disparities of the life expectancy repeats;