Best Med-icine: Spanish and Italian children can expect the longest lives

Newborn girls in Spanish, French, and Italian regions were expected to live longest, while newborn boys in Spanish, Italian, and Swedish regions were expected to live longest generally. Picture: Pexels

Children born in Spain and Italy are most likely to live the longest in the EU, while women can expect to live almost six years longer than men.

That is according to the latest figures from the European Commission's data analysis wing, Eurostat, which also found that the Covid-19 pandemic skewed life expectancy levels after a 19-year consecutive annual rise.