Gender gap in life expectancy in India and role of age groups: A comparison between before and after male - female life expectancy at birth crossover.

ABSTRACT: To assess the gender gap in life expectancy at birth in India and its major states as well as the timing of male-female life expectancy at birth crossover. To analyze the age-specific contributions to the changing gender differences before and after the crossover at the national and sub-national levels. We have used sample-survey-based age-specific mortality data available for the periods 1970-2018 to construct abridged life tables. The contribution of different age groups to the gender gap is estimated by using Arriaga's method of decomposition. During 1981-85 female life expectancy at birth caught up with male life expectancy at birth for India and by 2005 all major states completed the crossover. The male-female crossover in life expectancy at the national level in the early 80s is rema

SUBMITTER: Borah G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8638908 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature