Life expectancy at age 65 is also much lower than the OECD average, at 18.6 years for females and 13.7 for males in Latvia, compared to 21.1 and 17.8 OECD averages, respectively. Overall, the mortality rate among men is 1.9 times greater than the rate among women. More specifically, mortality for men across all age groups is 6.9 times higher than women for suicide, 3.2 times higher for transport accident, 2.1 times higher for cancer, 1.8 times higher for ischemic heart diseases and 1.3 times higher for stroke.