Are Men Aging as Oaks and Women as Reeds? A Behavioral Hypothesis to Explain the Gender Paradox of French Centenarians

Table 1

Breakdown of the French population by sex and age, by January 1st 2011.

Birth cohort	Age	Total	Males	Females	Sex_ratio
1920	90	159965	45659	114306	2.5
1915	95	28413	5461	22952	4.2
1910	100	6926	694	6232	9.0

Source: INSEE, 2011.