For the period 2023-2025, life expectancy at birth was 78.99 years for men and 84.21 years for women.

These values represent an increase of 3.1 months for men and 3.0 months for women compared to the previous three-year period, according to the INE.

"Over the past decade, life expectancy at birth increased by 1.28 years overall: 1.56 years for men and 0.98 years for women, according to the INE's Mortality Tables. This evolution was mainly driven by a reduction in mortality at ages 60 and over. Life expectancy at age 65, for the period 2023-2025, was estimated at 20.19 years for the total population.

At age 65, men could expect to live 18.43 years and women 21.55 years, reflecting a moderate increase compared to 2022-2024.

In the past decade, life expectancy at age 65 increased by just over a year for both men (12.1 months) and women (10.6 months).In 2023-2025, women continued to live longer than men, while, the statisticians observed, "the trend of convergence of life expectancy at birth for men and women, which was interrupted in 2019-2021," remained.