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Death rates at specific life stages mold the sex gap in life expectancy
Female life expectancy exceeds male life expectancy. Males at ages 15 to 40 die at rates that are often three times female levels, but this excess mortality is not the main cause of the life expectancy gap. Few deaths occur at younger adult ages compared with mortality after age 60 or, historically, among newborns. Our demographic analysis shows that, up through the early decades of the 20th century, the life expectancy gap largely resulted from excess deaths of infant boys.
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I read it had to do with not having two x chromosomes. I have no idea if this still holds water now,or if it ever did.