Following an earlier poll ...

[wellinghall]

Ratio of male to female mortality, by age band

21-25 459%
26-30 220%
31-35 184%
36-40 151%
41-45 129%
46-50 130%
51-55 130%
56-60 145%
61-65 158%
66-70 162%
71-75 152%
76-80 150%
81-85 149%

Comments

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

21-25: crikey.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It's probably even more extreme at 16 - 20. All those young men getting their driving licences ...

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

I think, OTTOMH that the suicide rate male vs female at that age is quite striking too - suicide is swiftly climbing the highest mortality causes for young men. I can't remember where the stats were for that though.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Accidents - especially road accidents - are the major cause of death among young men, but suicide is certainly a factor.

However, all this has to be put against a background of very few deaths among young people, in absolute terms. Only about 1 in 10,000 20-year-old women die every year.

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

Can I ask where you're getting your stats? Not disputing, just curious.

At any rate suicide rates for men are significantly higher than women (http://www.mind.org.uk/Information/Factsheets/Statistics/Statistics+2.htm#Suicide_mortality) which seems in keeping with the general trend, although probably not for the same reasons. (Scroll up for age groups.)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

The Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.

[emperor]

Where are your confidence intervals?!?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Pretty wide at the youngest age bands, but broadly similar results are obtained across other time periods.

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

I have failed to understand this. It appears that more men than women die at all these age groups, which would appear to mean that many more men than women were born, OR that the women mostly die after the age of 85. However I thought the differential was approximately 5% more male then female children born.

Could you explain where I am going wrong, please?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

The ratios are of q(x)'s, where q(x) is the proportion of people age x dying in the next year. So there could be 1,000 men age 21, of whom 1% or 10 die in the next year; and 1,100 women age 21, of whom 0.8% or 8.8.

By the time you get to 70, there are 500 men and 700 women around. 5% of the men, or 25, die in the next year; 4% of the women, or 28, die in the next year. So you can get more women dying than men, but still have a lower proportion of women dying.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

*Completely baffled, Sarah tries desperately to remember A-Level stats*

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Men die faster than women. At some ages, men die a lot faster than women.