Life expectancy at birth in Italy 2023, by region

In 2023, Trentino-South Tyrol was the Italian region where both women and men were predicted to live the longest lives in the whole peninsula. In the German-speaking region, the life expectancy at birth of men was around 82 years, whereas women were expected to live more than 86 years. The second place was different for males and females. In Lombardy, this figure stood at about 82 years for males and in Veneto at 86 years for females. When compared to the country’s average, women in Trentino-South Tyrol were expected to live roughly three years longer. 

Long life span and low birth rate

Around 20 percent of the Italian population in 2023 was above 65 years. Together with a long life expectancy, Italy also has very low birth and fertility rates. In 2023, the country resulted among the 20 states with the lowest fertility rate in the world.

One of the longest-living nations

From a global perspective, in 2021, Italy was the 12th country in the world with the highest life expectancy. The inhabitants of Japan, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and South Korea were expected to live about 84 years, while Italians' life expectancy was of 83 years.