Men have high probability of outliving women, especially the married and degree educated BMJ_Open
The female survival advantage has been observed over time across many different populations. But sex differences in survival are often identified by comparing life expectancy, which summarizes the average length of life, rather than years lived, and this has been interpreted as"men do not live as long as women," explain the researchers.
The researchers drew on life tables by sex and individual years for 41 countries from the Human Mortality Database, plus separate data for East and West Germany, and for the 4 countries of the UK. These were Iceland in 1891; Jordan in 1950–54; Iran in 1950–64, Iraq in 1960–69; before 1985 in Bangladesh, India, and the Maldives; and between 1995 and 2010 in Bhutan.
They highlight South Asian countries, where values were above 50% for men in the 1950s and 1960s. The death rate for children under 5 in India was higher for girls than for boys and has remained higher for girls in recent years.
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