>That 5 years difference between men and women keeps being biologically weird
The implication is that the "biological" expectation would be that men and women have the same life expectancy, absent medical intervention and societal standards and whatnot.
But it is possible that, due to having different biologies, men and women simply have different life expectancies. Similar to how men and women have different muscle mass and bone densities and height and yada yada.
Obviously, external factors could also be a factor, but my point is "internal" factors are also in play.
Ironically, the above link is a good discussion on biological differences in morbidity, which was the parent comment’s point, and not what I was trying to show.
There is no shortage of data on this. Here is one example: https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/newsroom/news-release...