If you were to browse a table of a recent period showing life expectancy at birth for all categories of rural-urban and male-female divisions for all States of India, you are not likely to observe that 1. Urban life expectancy is higher than the rural one

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Q: 34 (CDS-II/2022)
If you were to browse a table of a recent period showing life expectancy at birth for all categories of rural-urban and male-female divisions for all States of India, you are not likely to observe that
1. Urban life expectancy is higher than the rural one.
2. Male life expectancy is higher than the female one.
Select the correct answer using the code given below :

question_subject: 

Economics

question_exam: 

CDS-II

stats: 

0,12,37,12,12,15,10

The correct answer is option 2: 2 only. This means that you are likely to observe that male life expectancy is higher than female life expectancy, but it is not likely that urban life expectancy is higher than rural life expectancy.

Option 1: Urban life expectancy is higher than the rural one. This statement is not likely to be observed when browsing a table of life expectancy at birth for all categories of rural-urban and male-female divisions for all States of India. This means that rural life expectancy is likely to be higher than urban life expectancy in this context.

Option 2: Male life expectancy is higher than the female one. This statement is likely to be observed when browsing this table. It indicates that, on average, male life expectancy is higher than female life expectancy in the given categories and states.

To summarize, when examining the table of life expectancy at birth for all categories of rural-urban and male-female divisions for all States of India, you are not likely to observe that urban life expectancy is higher than rural life expectancy, but you are likely to observe that male life expectancy is higher than female life expectancy.

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