Why Women Are More Likely To 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 why women live longer than men? What is the reason the advantage has grown as time passes? There is only limited evidence and the evidence isn't sufficient to reach an unambiguous conclusion. Although we know that there are behavioral, biological and environmental factors that all play a role in women who live longer than men, we don't know how much each one contributes.

In spite of the number of pounds, we know that at least a portion of the reason why women live so much longer than men but not previously, has to be due to the fact that certain fundamental non-biological factors have changed. The factors changing are numerous. Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Some are more complex. For example, ابر التخسيس 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 men and women. As you can see, all countries are above the diagonal parity line - which means that in every country the newborn girl is likely to live longer than a newborn boy.1

The chart below shows that although there is a women's advantage in all countries, the differences across countries can be substantial. In Russia women live 10 years longer than men. In Bhutan the difference is just half an hour.

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The advantage women had in life expectancy was less in the richer countries than it is today.
Let's see how the female longevity advantage has changed over time. The next chart shows male and female life expectancy when they were born in the US between 1790 and ابر التخسيس 2014. Two things stand out.

There is an upward trend. Women and men in America have longer lives than they used to 100 years ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.

Second, there's an ever-widening gap: female advantage in terms of life expectancy used be extremely small however, it has increased significantly over the last century.

You can verify that the points you've listed are applicable to other countries with data by selecting the "Change country" option in the chart. This includes the UK, France, and Sweden.