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Dumbbell · longevity gap
Women outlive men, everywhere
Hollow dot men, filled dot women. The gap is universal but not uniform: three and a half years in the UK, ten in Russia - the widest of any large country.
Women outlive men, everywhere
Dumbbell chart of male versus female life expectancy in six large countries from UN 2023 data; Russia shows the widest gap at about ten years.
60
70
80
90
Japan
81.1
87.1
United Kingdom
79.2
82.9
United States
75.5
80.9
China
75.6
80.9
Russia
67.6
77.8
India
70.5
73.6
men
women
LIFE EXPECTANCY AT BIRTH BY SEX, YEARS · UN WORLD POPULATION PROSPECTS 2023 · WOMEN OUTLIVE MEN EVERYWHERE - RUSSIA BY A DECADE