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Circulatory Disease and the Wide Sex and Ethnic Life Expectancy Gaps in Bulgaria since 2010

2023-09-14

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This is the first study to apply cause-of-death decomposition methods to census and mortality data from Bulgaria, the country with the lowest life expectancy at birth (LE) in the European Union. Our main objective is to assess both sex and ethnic disparities in mortality and LE. We find that after peaking in 1994 at 7.9 years, the difference between male and female LE has persisted at around seven years. In Bulgar...

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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4553063

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