Why Do 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. Why do women live longer than men in the present, and why does this benefit increase over time? We only have a few clues and the evidence isn't sufficient to reach a definitive conclusion. We recognize that biological, behavioral and ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور environmental factors all play a role in the fact that women are healthier than men; however, we do not know what the contribution of each of these factors is.

In spite of the amount of weight, we are aware that at least part of the reason women live longer than men do today but not previously, is to have to do with the fact that several fundamental non-biological factors have changed. These variables are evolving. Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Others are more complicated. 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 ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور 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 men and women. As you can see, every country is above the diagonal parity line - which means that in every country a newborn girl can expect to live for longer than a newborn boy.1

The chart below shows that although women have an advantage everywhere, cross-country differences can be significant. In Russia, women live 10 years more than men. In Bhutan there is a difference of only half a year.

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The advantage of women in life expectancy was less in rich countries that it is today.
Let's examine how the advantage of women in longevity has changed over time. The chart below illustrates the gender-based and female-specific life expectancy at the birth in the US during the period 1790 to 2014. Two things stand out.

There is an upward trend. as well as women in the US live much, much longer than they did 100 years ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.

And second, there is an increasing gap: The female advantage in life expectancy used be very small but it increased substantially over the last century.

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