Probability of males to outlive females: an international comparison from 1751 to 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To measure sex differences in lifespan based on the probability of males to outlive females.

Design

International comparison of national and regional sex-specific life tables from the Human Mortality Database and the World Population Prospects.

Setting

199 populations spanning all continents, between 1751 and 2020.

Primary outcome measure

We used the outsurvival statistic ( φ ) to measure inequality in lifespan between sexes, which is interpreted here as the probability of males to outlive females.

Results

In random pairs of one male and one female at age 0, the probability of the male outliving the female varies between 25% and 50% for life tables in almost all years since 1751 and across almost all populations. We show that φ is negatively co

SUBMITTER: Bergeron-Boucher MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9472123 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature