Portugal vs Spain: How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy?
Portugal
1.15 years
in 2018
Spain
1.28 years
in 2018
Portugal rank
6th
Spain rank
3rd
How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy? over time
- Portugal
- Spain
How they compare
Spain currently reports 1.28 years against 1.15 years in Portugal, a difference of 0.13 years.
That makes Spain's figure about 1.1 times Portugal's.
The two have swapped places 9 times across 79 shared years of data; in 1940 it was Portugal ahead.
Portugal ranks 6th and Spain ranks 3rd of 33 countries.
Spain has averaged higher in every one of the 8 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Portugal | Spain | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 0.1873 years | 0.1956 years | 0.0083 years | Spain |
| 1950s | 0.2544 years | 0.2751 years | 0.0208 years | Spain |
| 1960s | 0.2955 years | 0.357 years | 0.0616 years | Spain |
| 1970s | 0.3366 years | 0.4346 years | 0.0979 years | Spain |
| 1980s | 0.497 years | 0.6346 years | 0.1376 years | Spain |
| 1990s | 0.6499 years | 0.8625 years | 0.2126 years | Spain |
| 2000s | 0.898 years | 1.11 years | 0.2163 years | Spain |
| 2010s | 1.1 years | 1.26 years | 0.1644 years | Spain |
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?, Portugal or Spain?
- Spain, at 1.28 years against 1.15 years in Portugal 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 Portugal and Spain?
- 0.13 years, with Spain ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Portugal and Spain?
- 79 years are reported by both, from 1940 to 2018.
- How do Portugal and Spain rank globally for how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy??
- Portugal ranks 6th and Spain ranks 3rd 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.