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The indicator is part of the EU Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicator set. It is used to monitor progress towards SDG 3 on good health and well-being.

SDG 3 aims to ensure health and well-being for all at all ages by improving reproductive, maternal and child health; ending the epidemics of major communicable diseases; reducing non-communicable and mental diseases. SDG 3 also calls for reducing behavioural (drugs and alcohol abuse, tobacco) as well as environmental health risk factors (traffic accidents, chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination). Main prerequisite for meeting these objectives are universal health coverage; access to sexual and reproductive health-care services and to safe, affordable and effective medicines and vaccines for all.

Member States have the main responsibility for their health care policy and for the organisation of their healthcare. However, EU Cohesion Policy aims at reducing disparities between EU regions, also in terms of endowment of health services. In addition, the EU climate and environmental policy also increases health and well-being.

Life expectancy at birth is defined as the mean number of years that a new-born child can expect to live if subjected throughout his life to the current mortality conditions (age specific probabilities of dying).

Years, by sex.

Calendar year.

The indicator is produced according to the high-level quality standards of European Statistics. Eurostat derives/calculates demographic indicators and geographical aggregates using common calculation methods and the overall accuracy of the indicator is considered to be high. Details on accuracy can be found in the metadata of the source datasets (see link to related metadata).

ESS

Data source: European Statistical System (ESS).
Data provider: Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, based on the detailed national figures on population and deaths sent to Eurostat by the National Statistical Institutes

Every year

Indicator is updated annually.

T+2 years

New data points are disseminated within two years after the reference year.

All EU MS

Data are presented for all EU Member States plus the United Kingdom, Island, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, Serbia & Turkey.

All EU MS

Data are comparable between all EU Member States respectively other presented countries.

> 10 years

Presented time series (including EU aggregates) starts in 2002.

> 4 data points

Length of comparable time series without methodological break is longer than 4 data points.

To be noted that the population data for 2011 and beyond take into account the results of the latest population census (held in 2011). Any breaks in population series due to revisions to population counts reported by the countries are documented in the Eurostat database using flag b (break in series). Most of these changes are listed under point 15.2 of the related metadata (demo_mor_esms - Mortality).

Analysis of indicator is presented in Eurostat's annual monitoring report on Sustainable development in the EU (progress towards SDGs in the EU context).

See table  sdg_03_10

Eurostat dedicated section on SDGs: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/sdi/overview

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