{
  "study": {
    "slug": "regional-life-expectancy-in-the-eu",
    "title": "People in Madrid Live Nearly Twelve Years Longer Than in Northwest Bulgaria",
    "url": "https://www.silverdatalab.com/studies/regional-life-expectancy-in-the-eu"
  },
  "table": 1,
  "language": "en",
  "caption": "Regional life expectancy at birth, 2024",
  "valueHeading": "years",
  "selection": "Three highest and three lowest of the 244 EU NUTS 2 regions. Bolzano, Trento and Stockholm all record 85.0 years, so four regions share the top three places and the chart shows two of the three. Eurostat publishes no EU aggregate in this regional dataset, so the ranking carries no reference row.",
  "decimals": 1,
  "referenceLabel": null,
  "note": "Eurostat publishes no EU aggregate for this regional series. Averaging the regions here would produce a figure of our own presented as the source's, so none is shown.",
  "derived": [
    "gap_to_reference"
  ],
  "flags": "source_flag carries the publisher's own status letters on the cell: p provisional, e estimated, b break in time series, d definition differs, u low reliability, i imputed",
  "source": {
    "publisher": "Eurostat",
    "dataset": "Life expectancy at birth by NUTS 2 region",
    "code": "demo_r_mlifexp",
    "filters": {
      "freq": "A",
      "sex": "T",
      "age": "Y_LT1",
      "unit": "YR",
      "time": "2024"
    },
    "extractedOn": "2026-08-11",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-06-01",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/demo_r_mlifexp",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_r_mlifexp/default/table?lang=en"
  },
  "licence": {
    "analysis": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "statistics": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about-us/policies/copyright"
  },
  "rows": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "name": "Comunidad de Madrid (ES)",
      "value": 85.7,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Provincia di Bolzano (IT)",
      "value": 85,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "Stockholm (SE)",
      "value": 85,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "name": "Severen tsentralen (BG)",
      "value": 74.9,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "name": "Mayotte (FR)",
      "value": 74.5,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": "p"
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "name": "Severozapaden (BG)",
      "value": 73.9,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    }
  ]
}