{"id":1548,"date":"2018-04-06T09:07:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T13:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonsolumdata.com\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2018-05-30T00:06:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T00:06:29","slug":"what-has-changed-in-the-lives-and-pattern-of-death-of-american-women-and-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nonsolumdata.com\/blog\/en\/2018\/04\/what-has-changed-in-the-lives-and-pattern-of-death-of-american-women-and-men\/","title":{"rendered":"What has changed in the lives (and pattern of death) of American women and men?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was so much intrigued by\u00a0Paul Krugman’s tweet<\/a>\u00a0that I thought I would dig a bit deeper. Knowing that life expectancy differs significantly between men and women, I wanted to see how the picture would look like if one looks at the same difference to the OECD average, but by gender. And I must say I was on for a surprise.<\/p>\n

Dear friends in the United States: can you tell me what story may be behind this?<\/em>\u00a0 Yes, the title is a real question!<\/p>\n

Let me expose the situation I found through the data on life expectancy by gender comparing the evolution between 1960 and 2015 in the United States and on average among OECD countries.<\/p>\n

In a previous post<\/a>, we have seen how the evolution of life expectancy is a critical element in the progress of aging in the American context, as it is, but plays differently, in each national context. I used the same data as the ones reported in Paul Krugman’s tweet and the Washington Post article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Life expectancy at birth<\/h3>\n

I provide a first set of charts through the short slide show below. Click on the arrow to the right and enjoy the build-up of the charts.<\/em><\/p>\n

Chart 1<\/strong> provides the full evolution of life expectancy at birth by gender<\/strong>, i.e. how many years a newborn girl or boy in a given year can expect to live. It shows how fast life expectancy at birth has increased and how different the evolution has been in the United States compared with the average across OECD countries (including the United States) \u2013 giving exactly the same representation as in the Washington Post article, but for women and men separately.<\/p>\n

Chart 2<\/strong> just takes these data a step further and portrays the difference in years of life expectancy at birth<\/strong> between the United States and the average for OECD countries.<\/p>\n

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  • When life expectancy at birth in the US is higher than that for OECD countries on average, the bars are above the horizontal zero line.<\/li>\n
  • When life expectancy at birth in the US is lower than that for OECD countries on average, the bars move below the horizontal line.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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