Life expectancy at birth

years

volatile recent trend, computed over 2017–2024

: rank 25 of 27 in the EU (2024)

The ultimate summary of a nation's health. The gain since 1990 is substantial, and the pandemic dip was recovered quickly. But beyond that recovery, the last decade has brought minimal advance: progress has nearly stopped, and the gap of several good years of life to the EU average persists.

Source: World Bank · Dataset: SP.DYN.LE00.IN · Open source

Where Romania stands in the EU (2024)

Life expectancy at birth remains among the lowest in the Union, a few years below the European average — a distance measured in years of life, not in ranking points.

Compared with Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria

Romania caught up visibly in the 2010s, and the pandemic drop was followed by an equally steep recovery. The distance to Hungary has nearly disappeared; the gap to Poland remains, but has narrowed.

The gaps between Romania's regions (2024)

Administrative boundaries: © EuroGeographics.

The shaded band spans, year by year, the distance between the highest-value region and the lowest.

Where you are born matters: between the region with the longest expected life and the one with the shortest lies a difference of several years, and it has not closed as the overall level rose.

Source: Eurostat · Dataset: demo_r_mlifexp · Open source

Source and method

Across the period shown: from 69.7 years in 1990 to 76.5 years in 2024.

Source: World Bank
Dataset: SP.DYN.LE00.IN
API address: https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/ROU/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?format=json&per_page=20000
Retrieved on: 2026-07-08

Download the data: speranta-viata.json · detail/speranta-viata.json