Health & Lifestyle Maps of Europe

Contents

1. Health & Well-being 1.1.1 Life expectancy (females) 1.1.2 Life expectancy (males) 1.2 Impact of Covid on life expectancy 1.3 Population over 65 1.4 Centenarians 1.5 Healthy life years 1.6 Long-term disability 1.7 Diabetes 1.8 Obesity 1.8.1 Evolution of obesity 1.9 Asthma 1.10 Hay fever 1.11 Depression 1.12 Anxiety 1.13 Daily smokers 1.14 Air pollution 1.15 Noise pollution 2. Causes of death 2.1 Heart disease 2.2 Strokes 2.3 Cancers 2.3.1 Colorectal cancer 2.3.2 Lung cancer 2.3.3 Pancreas cancer 2.3.4 Liver cancer 2.3.5 Stomach cancer 2.3.6 Breast cancer 2.3.7 Prostate cancer 2.4 Dementia 2.5 Alzheimer's 2.6 Parkinson's 2.7 Digestive diseases 2.8 Kidney diseases 2.9 Influenza & Pneumonia 2.10 Unintentional injuries 2.11 Male suicide 2.12 Female suicide 3. Antibiotics & antimicrobial resistance 3.1 Death rate from AMR infections 3.2 Antimicrobial resistance 3.3 Antibiotics consumption 4. Healthcare 4.1 Quality of Healthcare 4.2 Doctors per capita 4.3 Hospital beds per capita 4.4 Dentists per capita 4.5 Measles vaccination rates 5. Physical activity 5.1 Weekly physical activity 5.2 Daily steps 5.3 Daily TV watching time 6. Sexual well-being 6.1 Share of teenage mothers 6.2 Adolescent fertility rates 6.3 Abortion rates 6.4 Chlamydia infection rates 6.5 Hepatitis C infection rates 6.6 HIV/AIDS prevalence rates

Health

Female life expectancy (2018)

This map is based on the 2019 Human Development Index Ranking (2018 data). Data for Greenland and Albania is from the CIA World Factbook for 2017.

Male life expectancy (2018)

This map is based on the 2019 Human Development Index Ranking (2018 data). Data for Greenland and Albania is from the CIA World Factbook for 2017.

The impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy (change from 2014 to 2021)

This map is based on data from the World Bank Group published on Wikipedia.

Percentage of the population over 65 years old (2021)

This map is based on the World Bank (2021 data).

Centenarians per 100,000 people (2020-22)

This map is based on the data from Wikipedia (aggregate of various sources).

Healthy life years (HLY)

This map is based on data from Eurostat for 2020. Data for non-European countries are from other sources.

Percentage of the population with long-term disability (2016)

This map is based on data from Eurostat for 2016.

Diabetes prevalence (2019)

This map is based on the data from WHO for 2019.

Obesity rates (2017)

This map is based on the data from Renew Bariatrics for 2017.

Change in obesity rates from 2016 to 2024

This map is based on the data from the CIA World Factbook as reported on Wikipedia. The percentages indicated for the increase of decrease in obesity rates are the difference between the rates for 2016 and for 2024. For example, in the United Kingdom the rate decreased from 27.8% in 2016 to 20.1% in 2024, which is a decrease of 7.7 percentage points (the value indicated on the map). In other terms, the proportion of obese people decreased by 27.7% (7.7 / 27.8 * 100) in 8 years.

Prevalence of asthma (2017)

This map is based on the data from Our World in Data for 2017. Regional data for Germany is from Versorgungsatlas, for France from Delmas et al., for Spain from Catoira and Peñafiel (2017).

Prevalence of hay fever (2018)

This map is based on the data from Global Web Index for 2018.

Prevalence of depression (2016)

This map is based on the data from Our World in Data for 2016.

Prevalence of anxiety disorders (2017)

This map is based on the data from Our World in Data for 2017.

Percentage of daily smokers (2019)

This map is based on the data from Eurostat and the OECD for 2019.

Years of life lost due to PM2.5 exposure (2018)

This map is based on the data from Eurostat for 2018. The numbers indicate the annual rate per 1000 people.

Percentage of households suffering from noise pollution (2019)

This map is based on the data from Eurostat for 2019. Note that noise pollution is subjective and cultural and that the same level of noise in the environment will be interpreted or felt differently depending on the country.

Causes of death

Cardiovascular disease death rate per 100,000 people (2017)

This map is based on the data from WHO for 2017.

Stroke death rate per 100,000 people (2018)

This map is based on the data from WHO for 2018.

All cancers death rate per 100,000 people (2017)

This map is based on the data from WHO for 2017.

Death rate from colorectal cancer per 100,000 people (2019)

This map is based on the data from Eurostat.

Death rate from lung cancer per 100,000 people (2019)

This map is based on the data from Eurostat.

Death rate from pancreatic cancer per 100,000 people (2019)

This map is based on the data from Eurostat.

Death rate from liver cancer per 100,000 people (2019)

This map is based on the data from Eurostat.

Death rate from gastric cancer per 100,000 people (2019)

This map is based on the data from Eurostat.

Death rate from breast cancer per 100,000 people (2019)

This map is based on the data from Eurostat.

Death rate from prostate cancer per 100,000 people (2019)

This map is based on the data from Eurostat.

Death rate from all types of dementia per 100,000 people (2019)

This map is based on the data from WHO. Alzheimer's disease is also included.

Death rate from Alzheimer's disease per 100,000 people (2019)

This map is based on the data from Eurostat.

Death rate from Parkinson's disease per 100,000 people (2019)

This map is based on the data from Eurostat.

Death rate from digestive system diseases per 100,000 people (2019)

This map is based on the data from Eurostat.

Death rate from kidney diseases per 100,000 people (2019)

This map is based on the data from Eurostat.

Influenza & pneumonia death rate per 100,000 people (2017)

This map is based on the data from WHO for 2017.

Death rate from unintentional injuries per 100,000 people (2019)

This map is based on the data from Eurostat. It includes all types of injuries and accidental deaths, such as traffic accidents, drowning, accidental falls, poisoning, exposure to fire or smoke, etc.

Male suicide rate per 100,000 people (2019)

This map is based on the data from the WHO retrieved from Wikipedia.

Female suicide rate per 100,000 people (2019)

This map is based on the data from the WHO retrieved from Wikipedia. Note that the same scale was used as for male suicide to facilitate comparison.

Antibiotics & antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

Mortality rate from antimicrobial resistant infections, deaths per 100,000 people per year (2015)

This map is based on the data from the OECD's Stemming the Superbug Tide - Just A Few Dollars More.

Average antimicrobial resistance (AMR) prevalence rates as % of infections (2015)

This map is based on the data from the OECD's Stemming the Superbug Tide - Just A Few Dollars More.

Total consumption of antibiotics in defined daily doses per 1000 person per day (2018)

This map is based on the data from Antimicrobial consumption in the EU/EEA - Annual epidemiological report for 2018. Data for non-EU countries was obtained from other sources, notably Resistance Map (2015 values).

Healthcare

Euro Health Consumer Index (2018)

This map is based on the Health Consumer Powerhouse. The Euro Health Consumer Index (EHCI) rates the quality of healthcare across Europe. It analyses national healthcare on 46 indicators, looking into areas such as Patient Rights and Information, Access to Care, Treatment Outcomes, Range and Reach of Services, Prevention and use of Pharmaceuticals.

Medical doctors per 1000 inhabitants

This map is based on the World Bank for the latest available year as of 2020.

Hospital beds per 1000 inhabitants

This map is based on the World Bank for the latest available year as of 2020.

Dentists per 10,000 inhabitants

This map is based on the World Health Organization for the latest available year as of 2020.

Measles vaccination rates (2019)

This map is based on the data from the World Health Oganization via Our World in Data.

Phyiscal Activity

Percentage of the population over 15 years old practising sport, fitness or recreational physical activities at least once a week

This map is based on the data from Eurostat for 2014 for most EU countries. Other sources were used for other countries.

Average daily steps per person (2017)

This map is based on the data calculated with smartphone activity reported by Stanford University researchers in Nature in 2017.

Average time (in minutes) spent watching television daily (2016)

The data for this map comes from Statista (for Europe), Zenith OptiMedia (for the Middle East) and Ipsos (for Lebanon only).

Sexually well-being

Rate of birth to teenage mothers (2017)

This map is based on the data from Statista for 2017. It shows the share of all births to mothers under 20 years old. This measure is not affected by a country's fertility rate as it is a percentage of all births.

Births per 1,000 women ages 15-19 (2020)

This map is based on the data from the World Bank for 2020. It shows the fertility rate of adolescent women. Countries with higher birth rates tend to have a higher number of births to teenage mothers as well.

Abortion rates per 1,000 women (2019)

This map is based on the data from the Guttmacher Institute and the United Nations retrieved from Wikipedia.

Chlamydia incidence rate per 100,000 people (2019)

This map is based on the data from the ECDC surveillance report (2019). Other sources were used for missing countries: Gassowski et al. (2022) (for Germany), Expats.cz (for Czechia), the CDC (for the USA), Yue et al. (2020) (for China), and Kawado et al. (2020) (for Japan).

Hepatitis C incidence rate per 100,000 people (2019)

This map is based on the data from the ECDC surveillance report (2019). The incidence is the rate of new infections per year (as opposed to the prevalence, which includes all infected people). Other sources were used for missing countries: Institut Pasteur (for France), the CDC (for the USA) and Ko et al. (2021) (for Japan).

HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate (2019-21)

This map is based on the data from the CIA Factbook and the World Bank for 2021. Separe scientific studies were used for missing countries: Marty et al. (2019) (for Belgium), the UNAIDS (for Poland) and IASR Vol. 41. (2019) (for Japan).

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