The
first of the gender issues we discuss is life expectancy. Women live longer
than men do, but in certain parts of the world – particularly the developing
world – men outnumber women. Why this contradiction?
Life
expectancy is the number of years on average that someone can expect to live.
High and rising life expectancy is associated with a good and improving quality
of life. A country’s life expectancy is therefore a measure of how effectively
it is governed and how it compares with the rest of the world.
Figures
on life expectancy are calculated from the average age of death across a
country’s population. They vary considerably from country to country, and even
from region to region within the same country. There is a notable difference in
life expectancy between people in developing regions and those who live in
developed parts of the world.
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