Bulgaria vs Iceland: How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy?
Bulgaria
0.4277 years
in 2017
Iceland
0.6438 years
in 2018
Bulgaria rank
31st
Iceland rank
28th
How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy? over time
- Bulgaria
- Iceland
How they compare
Iceland currently reports 0.6438 years against 0.4277 years in Bulgaria, a difference of 0.2161 years.
That makes Iceland's figure about 1.5 times Bulgaria's.
The two have swapped places 10 times across 71 shared years of data; in 1947 it was Iceland ahead.
Bulgaria ranks 31st and Iceland ranks 28th of 33 countries.
Iceland has averaged higher in every one of the 8 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Bulgaria | Iceland | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 0.0435 years | 0.1536 years | 0.1101 years | Iceland |
| 1950s | 0.0756 years | 0.3412 years | 0.2655 years | Iceland |
| 1960s | 0.1061 years | 0.2458 years | 0.1397 years | Iceland |
| 1970s | 0.1522 years | 0.489 years | 0.3367 years | Iceland |
| 1980s | 0.212 years | 0.7456 years | 0.5337 years | Iceland |
| 1990s | 0.2386 years | 0.7753 years | 0.5367 years | Iceland |
| 2000s | 0.2817 years | 0.9307 years | 0.649 years | Iceland |
| 2010s | 0.3715 years | 0.989 years | 0.6176 years | Iceland |
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 Iceland?
- Iceland, at 0.6438 years against 0.4277 years in Bulgaria 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 Bulgaria and Iceland?
- 0.2161 years, with Iceland ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Bulgaria and Iceland?
- 71 years are reported by both, from 1947 to 2017.
- How do Bulgaria and Iceland rank globally for how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy??
- Bulgaria ranks 31st and Iceland ranks 28th 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.