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Life expectancy at birth, total (years). The value for Life expectancy at birth, total (years) in France was 81.97 as of 2013. As the graph below shows, over the past 53 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 82.11 in 2011 and a minimum value of 69.87 in 1960.
On average in Portugal, girls outperformed boys by 10 points, more than the average OECD gap of 8 points. In terms of health, life expectancy at birth in Portugal is almost 81 years, one year above the OECD average. Life expectancy for women is 84 years, compared with 78 for men.