Spain · Life Expectancy at Birth (WHO)

82.7 years2021

Unit: years. Publisher measure: Life expectancy at birth (years).

Life expectancy at birth for the country population, both sexes, under the mortality rates of the reference year.

Measurement basis: WHO modelled period life-table estimates based on sex- and age-specific mortality.

Reference-period cadence: annual.

Source update cadence: biennial. This does not establish a publication date for an individual reading.

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World Health Organization (Global Health Observatory); retrieved 2026-09-07. Retrieval time is separate from an official publisher release vintage.

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Reported estimates and uncertainty · 22 rows

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Reported estimates and independently qualified uncertainty endpoints
CountryYearReadingLower endpointUpper endpointPublisher note
Spain200079.0903728879.0885996279.15701718
Spain200179.3948386579.3945157579.45699884
Spain200279.4884520779.4187205979.55818356
Spain200379.4135147979.3519668779.4750627
Spain200479.9955236979.9292360680.06181131
Spain200580.0098173479.9465524380.07308225
Spain200680.6722306180.6142323480.73022887
Spain200780.6759134880.612840680.73898637
Spain200880.9734163980.9063393281.04049346
Spain200981.3291904581.2685266981.3898542
Spain201081.69305781.6274252281.75868879
Spain201181.8125659781.7476686381.8774633
Spain201281.959537581.8990584882.02001653
Spain201382.4788125882.4180949882.53953019
Spain201482.5844627882.5248302782.64409529
Spain201582.3294041682.2706513982.38815692
Spain201682.7307059982.6735364482.78787554
Spain201782.6757962782.615225882.73636673
Spain201882.7676598182.7675107282.82905811
Spain201983.1356189583.0715057583.19973215
Spain202081.9249887181.8600277481.98994969
Spain202182.6626725882.6549848382.73443759

One row per country, indicator and year, with raw values, source links and reuse notices. Thresholds have an empty numeric value and separate number/operator fields; value_kind distinguishes upper bounds from absent readings.