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 Average life expectancy at age x - ex (Metodologia 2007 - Year)
Characteristic Description
Name Average life expectancy at age x - ex (2007 methodology - Years) by Place of residence (NUTS - 2024), Sex and Age group; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Complete life tables
First available period 2020 - 2022
Last available period 2022 - 2024
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (NUTS - 2024)
  • Sex
  • Age group
Concepts
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • AGE GROUP:  The age interval in years to which a person belongs at the time of reference.
  • SEX:  Biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.
  • RESIDENT POPULATION:  The persons who regardless of the fact that at the moment of observation ' 0:00 a.m. of the reference day ' are present or absent in a given housing unit, this unit being where they live during most of the year with their family, or where they have all or most of their belongings.
Definition AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY AT AGE x - ex - Is the average period expectation of life at exact age x, that is the average number of years that those aged x exact will live thereafter based on the mortality rates experienced in the three year period to which the Interim Life Table relates.
Measure unit (symbol) Year (Year)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 26/09/2025


information presented in 10/11/2025