There is growing evidence to illustrate pertinent issues around women’s and men’s health and well-being. On average, men and women have different health experiences and outcomes. Men are more likely to engage in more health-reducing behaviours (e.g. smoking, drinking heavily) and have higher rates of death by suicide. Women are at greater risk of ill health than men. Women live longer on average than men, experience chronic health conditions at higher rates and experience poor mental health at higher rates, especially when they have experienced family and intimate partner violence.
OECD Dashboard on Gender Gaps
An international comparison focused on gender equality challenges, outcomes, and policies
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Health & Well-being
Life expectancy
Life expectancy is the average number of years that a person can be expected to live, assuming that age-specific mortality levels remain constant. This indicator is measured at birth, at 40 years old and at 60 years old, by gender.
Healthy life expectancy
Healthy life expectancy is the average number of years that a person can expect to live in "full health" by taking into account years lived in less than full health due to disease and/or injury.
Alcohol consumption
The total alcohol per capita consumption (APC) is defined as the total (sum of three-year average recorded and three-year average unrecorded APC, adjusted for three-year average tourist consumption) amount of alcohol consumed per adult (15+ years) over a calendar year, in litres of pure alcohol. Recorded alcohol consumption refers to official statistics (production, import, export, and sales or taxation data), while the unrecorded alcohol consumption refers to alcohol which is not taxed and is outside the usual system of governmental control.
Deaths from malignant neoplasms
This indicator presents age-standardised death rates from malignant neoplasms by gender expressed per 100 000 inhabitants.
Deaths from suicide
This indicator presents age-standardised death rates from suicide by gender expressed per 100 000 inhabitants.
Women physicians
This indicator presents the share of women as part of physicians.
Violence against women
This indicator presents prevalence of physical and/or sexual violence against women by an intimate partner over the lifetime and over the past 12 months.
Early marriage
This indicator presents the percentage of girls aged 15-19 years who have been or are still married, divorced, widowed or in an informal union.
Feeling of safety
This indicator presents the percentage of people declaring that they feel safe when walking alone at night in the city or area where they live and is expressed as percentage of population aged 15 years or over in the same subgroup.