ДА ЛИ ЖЕНЕ ЖИВЕ ДУЖЕ ОД МУШКАРАЦА У СРБИЈИ?
DO WOMEN LIVE LONGER THAN MEN IN SERBIA?

Author(s): Jelena N. Stojilković Gnjatović
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Sociology, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: life expectancy; differential mortality; sex structure; healthy life years
Summary/Abstract: Women’s longer life expectancy compared to men’s is the consequence of the interaction of biological, behavioral and cohort­specific determinants shaping the dynamic numerical sex ratio at various ages. Serbia’s population corroborates the demographic constant of women living longer than men, and of the largest difference in life expectancy being at birth, followed by a slight decrease in younger cohorts before almost balancing out in the oldest population. Over the past half­ century, there have been dramatic changes in the mortality model of the female population, which are responsible for almost all shifts in the overall population’s life expectancy. This increase was predominantly influenced by the youngest cohorts of women until the 1990s, when a less favorable mortality pattern was detected in the female population. Had it not been for the regressive trends in female mortality in the 1990s, the gender differences would have been even more pronounced. As the greatest shift in the past 15 years, the female and male population over the age of 60 have significantly increased their contribution to the overall increase in life expectancy compared to younger age cohorts. The analysis of the data on healthy life years confirms the existence of the male­female health­survival paradox, which is also the most striking conclusion we can draw on gender inequalities. Although women have longer life expectancies, men spend a greater proportion of their lives without major health problems.

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