Living to our full potential: Reassessing global sex inequalities in life expectancy.

Weber, Ann M; Darmstadt, Gary L · PLoS Med · 2026

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Abstract

Benchmarking life expectancy against what is achievable reveals how sex disadvantage shifts by age, place, and time, and reframes inequality as unrealized potential due to social and structural constraints rather than differences in biology.

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