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

France
1.45 years
in 2018
Italy
1.2 years
in 2017
France rank
2nd
Italy rank
4th

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

  • France
  • Italy
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How they compare

France currently reports 1.45 years against 1.2 years in Italy, a difference of 0.25 years.

That makes France's figure about 1.2 times Italy's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 146 shared years of data; in 1872 it was France ahead.

France ranks 2nd and Italy ranks 4th of 33 countries.

France has averaged higher in every one of the 15 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade France Italy Difference Ahead
1870s 0.0331 years -0.0146 years 0.0477 years France
1880s 0.0495 years -0.0268 years 0.0763 years France
1890s 0.0496 years 0.0035 years 0.0461 years France
1900s 0.064 years 0.0233 years 0.0408 years France
1910s 0.0607 years 0.0253 years 0.0354 years France
1920s 0.0977 years 0.048 years 0.0496 years France
1930s 0.1432 years 0.0864 years 0.0568 years France
1940s 0.1594 years 0.0808 years 0.0785 years France
1950s 0.3089 years 0.173 years 0.1358 years France
1960s 0.4247 years 0.2478 years 0.177 years France
1970s 0.5786 years 0.4014 years 0.1772 years France
1980s 0.8429 years 0.6455 years 0.1974 years France
1990s 1.15 years 0.931 years 0.2151 years France
2000s 1.37 years 1.18 years 0.1874 years France
2010s 1.46 years 1.26 years 0.2056 years France

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?, France or Italy?
France, at 1.45 years against 1.2 years in Italy 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 France and Italy?
0.25 years, with France ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for France and Italy?
146 years are reported by both, from 1872 to 2017.
How do France and Italy rank globally for how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy??
France ranks 2nd and Italy ranks 4th 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.