The Gender Gap in Life Expectancy in the United States and Deaths of Despair: Trends from 1979 to 2022
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The extent to which women outlive men in the U.S. has fluctuated over the 20th century, with periods of equalization, stagnation, and increase. Women's life expectancy advantage declined for roughly four decades but resurged after 2012. This coincided with an... ...
