The Gender Gap in Life Expectancy in the United States and Deaths of Despair: Trends From 1979 to 2022 by Christine Schwartz and Rodrigo González-Velastín (2025)
Population and Development Review Abstract: The extent to which women outlive men in the United States 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 increase in deaths of despair (deaths due to suicide, …