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

Bulgaria
0.4277 years
in 2017
Hungary
0.553 years
in 2017
Bulgaria rank
31st
Hungary rank
30th

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

  • Bulgaria
  • Hungary
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How they compare

Hungary currently reports 0.553 years against 0.4277 years in Bulgaria, a difference of 0.1253 years.

That makes Hungary's figure about 1.3 times Bulgaria's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 68 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Bulgaria ahead.

Bulgaria ranks 31st and Hungary ranks 30th of 33 countries.

Hungary has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Bulgaria Hungary Difference Ahead
1950s 0.0756 years 0.096 years 0.0204 years Hungary
1960s 0.1061 years 0.1797 years 0.0736 years Hungary
1970s 0.1522 years 0.2554 years 0.1031 years Hungary
1980s 0.212 years 0.3089 years 0.0969 years Hungary
1990s 0.2386 years 0.3577 years 0.1191 years Hungary
2000s 0.2817 years 0.484 years 0.2023 years Hungary
2010s 0.3715 years 0.5546 years 0.1832 years Hungary

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?, Bulgaria or Hungary?
Hungary, at 0.553 years against 0.4277 years in Bulgaria as of 2017.
What is the difference in how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy? between Bulgaria and Hungary?
0.1253 years, with Hungary ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Bulgaria and Hungary?
68 years are reported by both, from 1950 to 2017.
How do Bulgaria and Hungary rank globally for how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy??
Bulgaria ranks 31st and Hungary ranks 30th 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
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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.