Life expectancy and geographic variation in mortality: an observational comparison study of six high-income Anglophone countries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare life expectancy levels and within-country geographic variation in life expectancy across six high-income Anglophone countries between 1990 and 2018.

Design

Demographic analysis using aggregated mortality data.

Setting

Six high-income Anglophone countries (USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand), by sex, including an analysis of subnational geographic inequality in mortality within each country.

Population

Data come from the Human Mortality Database, the WHO Mortality Database and the vital statistics agencies of six high-income Anglophone countries.

Main outcome measures

Life expectancy at birth and age 65; age and cause of death contributions to life expectancy differences between countries; index of dissimilarity for w

SUBMITTER: Wilkie RZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11407213 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature