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Bulgarians have the lowest life expectancy in EU

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Bulgarians are the Europeans with the lowest average life expectancy - 74.8 years, according to Eurostat data for 2017. Close are Latvia - 74.9 years, Romania- 75.3 and Lithuania -75.8. The EU average life expectancy is 80.9 years, as the highest is in Spain being 83.4 years and Italy 83.1. On average across the European Community, men live 5.4 years less than women. Men and women in Madrid and London live the longest by region, and those who live shortest are in Western Lithuania. In Bulgaria, the average life expectancy for men is 71.4 years and 78.4 years for women. Only men in Lithuania live less than 70.7 years.



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