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

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.

Countries reporting
33
Highest
2.06 years
Japan
Lowest
0.3107 years
Ukraine
Median
0.9475 years
Years covered
269
1751–2019
Data points
3,442

What the numbers show

How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy? is currently reported for 33 countries. The highest value is 2.06 years in Japan; the lowest is 0.3107 years in Ukraine.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.9475 years, and the mean is 0.928 years.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 7.

Over the past decade 19 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Latvia (up 75.5%), and the largest decrease in Norway (down 13.3%).

How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy?: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Japan 2.06 years 2019 down 1.0% volatile
2 France 1.45 years 2018 down 1.9% volatile
3 Spain 1.28 years 2018 up 10.3% volatile
4 Italy 1.2 years 2017 down 4.2% volatile
5 Finland 1.16 years 2019 up 7.9% volatile
6 Portugal 1.15 years 2018 up 14.3% volatile
7 Luxembourg 1.12 years 2019 down 1.4% volatile
8 Switzerland 1.09 years 2018 down 7.5% volatile
9 Australia 1.08 years 2018 down 3.1% volatile
10 Sweden 1.07 years 2019 down 2.8% volatile
11 Canada 1.07 years 2018 down 11.4% volatile
12 Belgium 1.07 years 2018 up 2.0% volatile
13 Norway 1.04 years 2018 down 13.3% volatile
14 New Zealand 0.9722 years 2013 down 7.5% rising
15 Denmark 0.9677 years 2019 up 3.9% volatile
16 Estonia 0.9522 years 2019 up 29.4% rising
17 Netherlands 0.9475 years 2018 down 10.5% volatile
18 Germany 0.944 years 2017 up 2.5% volatile
19 Austria 0.8982 years 2017 up 5.2% volatile
20 Ireland 0.8913 years 2017 down 10.9% volatile
21 Poland 0.8181 years 2018 up 17.6% rising
22 United Kingdom 0.8133 years 2018 down 3.1% volatile
23 Lithuania 0.7881 years 2019 up 26.0% rising
24 United States 0.7738 years 2018 down 4.9% rising
25 Czechia 0.735 years 2018 up 22.4% rising
26 Latvia 0.7058 years 2017 up 75.5% rising
27 Belarus 0.666 years 2018 up 50.6% falling
28 Iceland 0.6438 years 2018 up 1.0% volatile
29 Slovakia 0.5891 years 2017 up 20.9% rising
30 Hungary 0.553 years 2017 up 4.7% rising
31 Bulgaria 0.4277 years 2017 up 37.2% volatile
32 Russia 0.3897 years 2014 up 36.5% falling
33 Ukraine 0.3107 years 2013 up 17.6% falling

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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.