https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250314-3
The Eurostat page looks much better in terms of the information it provides.
Even better: Eurostat | Statistics Explained | Mortality and life expectancy statistics. It has life expectancy at birth and at 65.
Life expectancy at birth has risen rapidly during the past century due to a number of factors. These include a reduction in infant mortality, rising living standards, improved lifestyles and better education, as well as advances in healthcare and medicine. Official statistics reveal that life expectancy has risen, on average, by more than two years per decade since the 1960s. In 2020, however, after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, this indicator declined in 25 EU countries compared to 2019, the exceptions being Denmark and Cyprus. In 2023, life expectancy at birth was equal to or higher than in 2019 in 21 EU countries. By contrast life expectancy fell in 6 EU countries: Finland (-0.5 years), the Netherlands (-0.3 years), Germany (-0.2 years) to Italy, Latvia and Austria (all -0.1 years).
There’s also an entire book on “The imapct of Demographic change”: https://commission.europa.eu/system/files/2023-01/Demography_report_2022_0.pdf
It’s obviously because we work the most hours and rest the less.
If you ask me it’s because non mediteranian winters are disgusting.
Relevant research that just won an ig nobel prize.
tl;dr: they don’t live longer, they just don’t report their dead relatives and pocket the pensions.
https://www.medicalrepublic.com.au/maybe-its-the-mediterranean-diet-maybe-its-pension-fraud/110766
This maybe a bit, but it’s hard to do, you have to hide the bodies of your deceased ones, it’s not so easy.
Low natality plays a more important factor, it’s hard for people to die young, if there aren’t many young people anymore.
