at every age except the eldest, the racial differences in life expectancy are larger for men than for women. Third, factors linked to both race and sex likely contribute to life expectancy such that, at every age, black women have higher levels of life expectancy than white men. Fourth, gender differences in life expectancy are consistently larger for blacks than for whites. Finally, the gap in life expectancy between black men and women is consistently larger, at every age, than the racial gap in life expectancy.
