Last Updated: June 21, 2018

New research shows Canadians are living longer than ever. With an average life expectancy of 82.2 years, Canada now ranks 12th in the world.

Sadly for men, Canadian women live an average of 3.9 years longer. This means a life expectancy of 80.2 years for men, and 84.1 years for women.

Longer lifespans for women are one of the reasons that when it comes to the end of life, Canadian men and women often die of different causes. Recently, researchers at Opportunity Health mined 23 years of data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) to tease out exactly what these differences are.