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The gender gap in life expectancy and lifespan disparity as social ...
Patterns in age and cause of death contribution to the sex gap in life ...
Women live longer than men and the absolute difference between male and female mortality risk reaches its maximum at old ages.
Dynamics of life expectancy and life span equality - PNAS
At present, among the world's nations, Japanese women have the highest life expectancy at birth, above 87 y. In 1840, the record was held by Swedish women, with ...
The contributions of injury deaths to the gender gap in life ...
Hence, this indicator should be complemented with life disparity (LD) which is a measure that reflects the variation in age at the time of death ...
U.S. Men Die 6 Years Before Women, as Life Expectancy Gap Widens
New research shows that in the U.S., the longevity gap between women and men has been widening for more than a decade, with women outliving ...
The Lifespan Disparity Dataset: An open repository on inequality ...
Despite its popularity, life expectancy encounters several limitations as a health indicator. It does not take into account differences in the ...
Gender differences in countries' adaptation to societal ageing
Specifically, the longevity risk associated with longer life expectancy of women, with greater risk of morbidity entails different needs between genders in ...
On the importance of monitoring inequality in life expectancy
In Norway, for instance, women in the top one per cent of the income distribution can be expected to live 8.6 years longer than women in the ...
Gender gaps—Life expectancy and proportion of life in poor health
According to the second hypothesis, women, on average, live longer, a gap that translates into health inequalities between men and women.
Social Inequality and the Future of US Life Expectancy
... social factors determine who is most able to maximize their biological lifespan. After reviewing evidence for biodemographic perspectives on life expectancy ...
Life expectancy by sex and education level - OECD iLibrary
Women live longer than men in all OECD member and partner countries. This gender gap averaged 5.3 years across OECD countries in 2019.
The gender gap in life expectancy and lifespan disparity as social ...
Despite the life expectancy at birth has increased steadily over the last century, it conceals gender-specific differences worldwide. Indeed, longevity risk ...
Trends in Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation by Educational ...
Among low-educated whites, adult life expectancy declined by 3.1 years for women and by 0.6 years for men. At the same time, S25 increased by ...
The gender gap in life expectancy: Are eggs and sperm partly ...
Women live longer than men. This isn't unique to humans, either; we see this trend in a wide range of other animals. Biologists have theorized ...
Uneven access to health services drives life expectancy gaps: WHO
In low-income countries, where services are scarcer, 1 in 41 women dies from a maternal cause, compared with 1 in 3300 in high-income countries.
On the (changing) relationship between life expectancy and lifespan ...
Societal implications of increased lifespan inequality ... Lifespan inequality is important because people making major life decisions are ...
Why the Life Expectancy Gap between Men and Women Is Growing
In 2010 women were projected to live 4.8 years longer than men. By 2021 this gap widened to 5.8 years, the largest disparity since 1996.
Why is the gender gap in life expectancy decreasing? The impact of ...
Women in Sweden have had, on average, a 3-year higher life expectancy at birth than men since the 1750s (HMD 2015). The female mortality ...
Women live longer but in poorer health
A baby girl born in the EU in 2017 can expect to live to the age of 84, compared to 78 years for a baby boy. While the gender difference in life expectancy ...
Why the longevity gap between men and women is widening
Men have increasingly shorter lifespans compared to women, in part due to preventable deaths.
The hidden inequality behind life expectancy increases - CENIE
While life expectancy seizes the size of average longevity improvements, lifespan inequality captures the (in)equality in survival developments across different ...