Why Women Live Longer Than Men

Everywhere in the world women live longer than men - but this was not always the case. The available data from rich countries shows that women didn't live longer than men in the 19th century. What's the reason women have a longer life span than men? What is the reason is this difference growing as time passes? The evidence is sketchy and we have only some answers. While we are aware that there are biological, psychological and environmental factors which play a significant role in women who live longer than males, it isn't clear what percentage each factor اضيق وضعية للجماع plays in.

In spite of the amount of weight, we are aware that at least a portion of the reason why women live longer than men but not previously, is to have to do with the fact that a number of important non-biological aspects have changed. What are the factors that are changing? Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Some are more complex. For example, there is evidence that in rich countries the female advantage increased in part because infectious diseases used to affect women disproportionately a century ago, so advances in medicine that reduced the long-term health burden from infectious diseases, especially for survivors, ended up raising women's longevity disproportionately.

Everywhere in the world women tend to live longer than men
The first chart below shows life expectancy at birth for اضيق وضعية للجماع men and women. We can see that all countries are over the diagonal line of parity. This implies that a baby girl from every country could anticipate to live longer than her brothers.

This chart is interesting in that it shows that the advantage of women exists in all countries, global differences are significant. In Russia women live 10 years longer than men. In Bhutan the gap is less than half a year.

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The advantage for women in terms of life expectancy was lower in developed countries that it is today.
Let's look at how female longevity advantage has changed in the course of time. The chart below shows gender-based and female-specific life expectancy at birth in the US in the years 1790 to 2014. Two things stand out.

There is an upward trend. Men and women in the United States live longer than they did a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.

There is an ever-widening gap: female advantage in terms of life expectancy used be very small but it increased substantially during the last century.

By selecting 'Change Country' on the chart, determine if these two points are also applicable to other countries with available information: Sweden, France and the UK.