Sex Differences Around the World in Time Distance Watch: Life Expectancy, Obesity, Mean Body Mass Index, and Diabetes for about 200 Countries

This study offers new insights by analysing gender differences in life expectancy, mean body mass index, obesity and diabetes by using the novel time distance methodology. It combines two developments: firstly, recent availability of gender disaggregated longer time series by NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, 2016 on trends in body mass index and diabetes in 200 countries over 40 (35) years added to the UN long time series on life expectancy for about 60 years. As the focus we selected the gen...