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

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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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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.