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Difference between male and female life expectancy, United Kingdom, 1841 to 2011

Female minus male life expectancy, at ages 0, 15, and 45. Estimates are based on period life tables and are expressed as expected age at death, not as years left to
live.

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Source: Human Mortality Database (2018) and others