Editing Demographics of Estonia (section)

=== Life expectancy at birth ===
[[File:Life_expectancy_in_Estonia.svg|thumb|Development of life expectancy in Estonia]]
Life expectancy in Estonia is lower than in most Western European countries. During the Soviet era life expectancy in males was between 64 and 66 years and in females between 73 and 75 years.<ref name="Main demographic indicators"/> After the independence, life expectancy decreased for a number of years. In 1994, the lowest life expectancy was recorded: 60.5 years in males and 72.8 in females. After 1994, life expectancy gradually increased to reach 68.3 years in males and 79.2 in females in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indexmundi.com/estonia/life_expectancy_at_birth.html|access-date=3 January 2013|title=Estonia Life expectancy at birth|publisher= Index Mundi}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
!Period
!Life expectancy in<br />Years<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/DataQuery/|title=World Population Prospects – Population Division |publisher=United Nations|access-date=2018-08-26}}</ref>
|-
|1950–1955
|61.77
|-
|1955–1960
|{{increase}} 66.92
|-
|1960–1965
|{{increase}} 69.38
|-
|1965–1970
|{{increase}} 70.31
|-
|1970–1975
|{{decrease}} 70.27
|-
|1975–1980
|{{decrease}} 69.43
|-
|1980–1985
|{{decrease}} 69.32
|-
|1985–1990
|{{increase}} 70.34
|-
|1990–1995
|{{decrease}} 68.50
|-
|1995–2000
|{{increase}} 69.42
|-
|2000–2005
|{{increase}} 71.59
|-
|2005–2010
|{{increase}} 73.77
|-
|2010–2015
|{{increase}} 76.76
|-
|2020
|{{increase}} 78.80
|-
|2023<ref>{{Cite web |title=Last year, life expectancy in Estonia was the highest ever, but there was a decrease in healthy life years {{!}} Statistikaamet |url=https://www.stat.ee/en/news/last-year-life-expectancy-estonia-was-highest-ever-there-was-decrease-healthy-life-years |access-date=2024-06-04 |website=www.stat.ee |language=en}}</ref>
|{{increase}} 79.00
|}

By data from Statistics Estonia life expectancy at birth in both 2019 and 2020 was 74.4 years for males and 82.8 years for females, on average for all 78,8 years.<ref>{{Cite web|date=25 August 2021|title=Growth in life expectancy has slowed down, but Estonian people live a longer healthy life|url=https://www.stat.ee/en/node/183291|website=Statistics Estonia}}</ref> 
Life expectancy has increased during last years for both sexes, men are expected to live disability-free for 54.1 years and women for 57.6 years. Males live 72.7 percent of their life in good health and females 70 percent.<ref>{{Cite web|date=27 August 2020|title=We live longer but not healthier|url=https://www.stat.ee/en/node/4549|website=Statistics Estonia}}</ref>

For comparison, in 2018 the average life expectancy for men in Europe was 78.3 years and for women 83.6 years.<ref>{{Cite news|date=27 August 2020|title=Life expectancy has increased for men and women in Estonia|work=ERR news|url=https://news.err.ee/1127800/statistics-life-expectancy-has-increased-for-men-and-women-in-estonia}}</ref>