El Salvador: women outlive men by 8.8 years, 1.6 times the world average
life expectancy at birth, UN estimate, 2023
By UN estimates, women can expect to live 76.3 years and men 67.5. The world average gap is 5.4 years. Here it was 3.9 years in 1950.
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Life expectancy at birth: how long newborn girls and boys would live on average if mortality stayed as in that year.
Blue is the card’s first number, orange the second; they share one scale. The gap between them is shaded. The large numbers are the latest year both lines share.
- Life expectancy at birth, women years
46.2 (1950) → 76.3 (2023)
- Life expectancy at birth, men years
42.3 (1950) → 67.5 (2023)
UN estimates for 1950–2023. The gap must be at least 8 years in each of the last three years: one bad year alone does not make a card. A jump of 2.5 years or more within one of the last five years is named in the text.
UN estimates (World Population Prospects 2024); national statistics can give slightly different numbers. The gap comes mostly from deaths of middle-aged men — heart disease, alcohol, injuries; in years of war, from those killed as well.
A question for this picture
Which causes of men’s deaths make most of the gap?