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Table 3 Average age at death (conditional on survival to age 35) for each country, gender, and educational group over the period of study; "total" refers to all educational groups combined

From: The contribution of educational inequalities to lifespan variation

 

Male

Female

 

Elem-entary1

Lower sec.

Upper sec.

Tertiary

Total

Elem-entary1

Lower sec.

Upper sec.

Tertiary

Total

Sweden

75.8

76.8

78.1

80.6

77.5

80.8

82.3

83.0

84.7

82.1

Norway

 

74.5

77.0

79.4

76.5

 

80.4

82.5

83.9

81.6

Finland

 

73.0

75.1

78.1

74.4

 

80.3

82.1

83.2

81.1

Belgium

73.6

75.5

76.3

78.4

75.0

80.2

82.1

82.5

83.0

80.9

Switzerland

 

74.5

77.6

80.0

77.3

 

82.1

83.7

84.6

82.9

France

73.7

76.8

77.1

80.5

75.6

82.1

83.9

84.6

85.0

82.8

Slovenia

69.3

70.6

73.6

77.4

72.4

78.0

79.2

80.8

82.4

79.4

Czech Rep.

64.4

74.2

77.5

80.9

73.3

78.0

79.4

81.9

84.0

79.3

Poland

68.6

69.7

76.4

79.7

72.1

78.4

77.2

82.3

83.9

79.7

Estonia

62.6

63.7

68.0

75.6

67.8

71.7

74.9

78.1

81.7

77.7

Lithuania

63.4

63.0

70.9

76.9

69.4

72.4

73.6

82.4

84.0

79.3

  1. 1The lowest two educational groups were combined in Norway, Finland, and Switzerland by the Eurothine team.