Life expectancy by age, sex and NUTS 2 region - demo_r_mlifexp

Data - Eurostat

Author

François Geerolf

Info

Last observation: Annual: 2024 (N = 115,776)

First observation: Annual: 1990 (N = 53,853)

Last data update: 11 aoû 2026, 19:26. Last compile: 11 aoû 2026, 23:22

Structure

NUTS 2 Life Expectancy

All

Code

demo_r_mlifexp |>
  filter(time == "2018", 
         nchar(geo) == 4,
         sex == "T",
         age == "Y1") |>
  
  select(geo, Geo, values) |>
  right_join(europe_NUTS2, by = "geo") |>
  filter(long >= -15, lat >= 33) |>
  ggplot(aes(x = long, y = lat, group = group, fill = values)) +
  geom_polygon() + coord_map() +
  scale_fill_viridis_c(na.value = "white",
                       direction = -1,
                       breaks = seq(70, 90, 2),
                       values = c(0, 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9, 1)) +
  theme_void() + theme(legend.position = c(0.25, 0.85)) + 
  labs(fill = "Life Expectancy (Men and Women)")

Men

Code

demo_r_mlifexp |>
  filter(time == "2018", 
         nchar(geo) == 4,
         sex == "M",
         age == "Y1") |>
  
  select(geo, Geo, values) |>
  right_join(europe_NUTS2, by = "geo") |>
  filter(long >= -15, lat >= 33) |>
  ggplot(aes(x = long, y = lat, group = group, fill = values)) +
  geom_polygon() + coord_map() +
  scale_fill_viridis_c(na.value = "white",
                       direction = -1,
                       breaks = seq(70, 90, 2),
                       values = c(0, 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9, 1)) +
  theme_void() + theme(legend.position = c(0.25, 0.85)) + 
  labs(fill = "Life Expectancy (Men)")

Women

Code

demo_r_mlifexp |>
  filter(time == "2018", 
         nchar(geo) == 4,
         sex == "F",
         age == "Y1") |>
  
  select(geo, Geo, values) |>
  right_join(europe_NUTS2, by = "geo") |>
  filter(long >= -15, lat >= 33) |>
  ggplot(aes(x = long, y = lat, group = group, fill = values)) +
  geom_polygon() + coord_map() +
  scale_fill_viridis_c(na.value = "white",
                       direction = -1,
                       breaks = seq(70, 90, 2),
                       values = c(0, 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9, 1)) +
  theme_void() + theme(legend.position = c(0.25, 0.85)) + 
  labs(fill = "Life Expectancy (Women)")