Australia vs Portugal: How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy?
Australia
1.08 years
in 2018
Portugal
1.15 years
in 2018
Australia rank
9th
Portugal rank
6th
How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy? over time
- Australia
- Portugal
How they compare
Portugal currently reports 1.15 years against 1.08 years in Australia, a difference of 0.07 years.
That makes Portugal's figure about 1.1 times Australia's.
The two have swapped places 9 times across 79 shared years of data; in 1940 it was Australia ahead.
Australia ranks 9th and Portugal ranks 6th of 33 countries.
Across the 8 decades both report, Australia averaged higher in 7 and Portugal in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Australia | Portugal | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 0.2266 years | 0.1873 years | 0.0393 years | Australia |
| 1950s | 0.2963 years | 0.2544 years | 0.0419 years | Australia |
| 1960s | 0.4235 years | 0.2955 years | 0.128 years | Australia |
| 1970s | 0.6014 years | 0.3366 years | 0.2648 years | Australia |
| 1980s | 0.8592 years | 0.497 years | 0.3623 years | Australia |
| 1990s | 1.05 years | 0.6499 years | 0.4013 years | Australia |
| 2000s | 1.13 years | 0.898 years | 0.2342 years | Australia |
| 2010s | 1.07 years | 1.1 years | 0.0339 years | Portugal |
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 Portugal?
- Portugal, at 1.15 years against 1.08 years in Australia 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 Portugal?
- 0.07 years, with Portugal ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Portugal?
- 79 years are reported by both, from 1940 to 2018.
- How do Australia and Portugal rank globally for how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy??
- Australia ranks 9th and Portugal ranks 6th 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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About this data
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.