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

Estonia
0.9522 years
in 2019
Netherlands
0.9475 years
in 2018
Estonia rank
16th
Netherlands rank
17th

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

  • Estonia
  • Netherlands
00.250.50.7511.2185019342019

How they compare

Estonia currently reports 0.9522 years against 0.9475 years in Netherlands, a difference of 0.0047 years.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 60 shared years of data; in 1959 it was Estonia ahead.

Estonia ranks 16th and Netherlands ranks 17th of 33 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Estonia averaged higher in 2 and Netherlands in 5.

Head to head by decade

Decade Estonia Netherlands Difference Ahead
1950s 0.2815 years 0.1404 years 0.1411 years Estonia
1960s 0.3175 years 0.2379 years 0.0795 years Estonia
1970s 0.3529 years 0.4541 years 0.1012 years Netherlands
1980s 0.3762 years 0.8587 years 0.4825 years Netherlands
1990s 0.3907 years 1 years 0.6103 years Netherlands
2000s 0.5917 years 1.05 years 0.4614 years Netherlands
2010s 0.9105 years 1.04 years 0.1257 years Netherlands

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?, Estonia or Netherlands?
Estonia, at 0.9522 years against 0.9475 years in Netherlands as of 2019.
What is the difference in how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy? between Estonia and Netherlands?
0.0047 years, with Estonia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Estonia and Netherlands?
60 years are reported by both, from 1959 to 2018.
How do Estonia and Netherlands rank globally for how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy??
Estonia ranks 16th and Netherlands ranks 17th 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.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Estonia vs Netherlands: How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy?. Statizoid, drawing on Zarulli et al. (2021) – processed by Our World in Data. Retrieved 30 August 2026, from https://health.statizoid.com/compare/gender-gap-in-life-expectancy-by-age-group/estonia/netherlands/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://health.statizoid.com/compare/gender-gap-in-life-expectancy-by-age-group/estonia/netherlands/">Estonia vs Netherlands: How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy?</a> — Statizoid

About this data

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.