According to the study, presented on Antena 3 by Andrada Popovici, Romanians live on average to be 75 years old. By four years less than the average life expectancy of residents of other Member States in the European Union.
The ones who live the longest are Spanish, Italians and French, who exceed 82 years old . At the opposite end, there are the Baltic States and the Eastern Europe, countries where life expectancy does not reach the age of 75. Other countries in the same situation as Romania are Latvia, Bulgaria and Lithuania. However, in the last two countries, the life expectancy has been extended by three years in the last two decades. Improvements were recorded in the Czech Republic and Estonia, where people live, on average, seven years longer.
Women in the European Union live six years longer than men. Sociological studies show that in the Community, life expectancy increased by 5 years compared to 1990. The increase is due to the reduced mortality in people between 50 and 65 years, suffering from cardiovascular disease.
Anyway, heart diseases remain the leading cause of death in Europe. Second place is occupied by cancer, a disease increasingly more common in the Baltic countries, but also in Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Macedonia.