Australia vs Belgium: How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy?

Australia
1.08 years
in 2018
Belgium
1.07 years
in 2018
Australia rank
9th
Belgium rank
12th

How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy? over time

  • Australia
  • Belgium
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How they compare

Australia currently reports 1.08 years against 1.07 years in Belgium, a difference of 0.01 years.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 98 shared years of data; in 1921 it was Australia ahead.

Australia ranks 9th and Belgium ranks 12th of 33 countries.

Across the 10 decades both report, Australia averaged higher in 9 and Belgium in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade Australia Belgium Difference Ahead
1920s 0.1545 years 0.0909 years 0.0636 years Australia
1930s 0.2104 years 0.1285 years 0.0819 years Australia
1940s 0.2266 years 0.1441 years 0.0825 years Australia
1950s 0.2963 years 0.1994 years 0.0969 years Australia
1960s 0.4235 years 0.2487 years 0.1748 years Australia
1970s 0.6014 years 0.3593 years 0.2421 years Australia
1980s 0.8592 years 0.6254 years 0.2338 years Australia
1990s 1.05 years 0.9541 years 0.0971 years Australia
2000s 1.13 years 1.02 years 0.1107 years Australia
2010s 1.07 years 1.07 years 0.0009 years Belgium

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy?, Australia or Belgium?
Australia, at 1.08 years against 1.07 years in Belgium as of 2018.
What is the difference in how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy? between Australia and Belgium?
0.01 years, with Australia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Belgium?
98 years are reported by both, from 1921 to 2018.
How do Australia and Belgium rank globally for how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy??
Australia ranks 9th and Belgium ranks 12th of 33 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Zarulli et al. (2021) – processed by Our World in Data, published as How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy?. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator
How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy?
Unit
years
Source
Zarulli et al. (2021) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
33 places, 3,442 data points, 1751–2019
Last refreshed

The sex gap in life expectancy arises from sex differences in death rates across the lifespan. This indicator shows the number of years that a given age group's death rates have contributed to the overall sex gap in life expectancy.