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

Bulgaria
0.4277 years
in 2017
Slovakia
0.5891 years
in 2017
Bulgaria rank
31st
Slovakia rank
29th

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

  • Bulgaria
  • Slovakia
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How they compare

Slovakia currently reports 0.5891 years against 0.4277 years in Bulgaria, a difference of 0.1614 years.

That makes Slovakia's figure about 1.4 times Bulgaria's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 68 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Slovakia ahead.

Bulgaria ranks 31st and Slovakia ranks 29th of 33 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Bulgaria Slovakia Difference Ahead
1950s 0.0756 years 0.1125 years 0.0369 years Slovakia
1960s 0.1061 years 0.1654 years 0.0593 years Slovakia
1970s 0.1522 years 0.2337 years 0.0814 years Slovakia
1980s 0.212 years 0.3361 years 0.1241 years Slovakia
1990s 0.2386 years 0.393 years 0.1545 years Slovakia
2000s 0.2817 years 0.4678 years 0.1861 years Slovakia
2010s 0.3715 years 0.5579 years 0.1865 years Slovakia

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 Slovakia?
Slovakia, at 0.5891 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 Slovakia?
0.1614 years, with Slovakia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Bulgaria and Slovakia?
68 years are reported by both, from 1950 to 2017.
How do Bulgaria and Slovakia rank globally for how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy??
Bulgaria ranks 31st and Slovakia ranks 29th 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.