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. What is the reason women live longer than men in the present, and why have these advantages gotten bigger in the past? We only have partial evidence and the evidence isn't sufficient to support an absolute conclusion. We know there are biological, psychological as well as environmental factors that all play a role in the longevity of women over men, we do not know how much each one contributes.

In spite of the number of pounds, we know that a large portion of the reason why women live so much longer than men and not previously, is to relate to the fact that certain significant non-biological elements have changed. What are these new factors? Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. There are others that are more intricate. 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, ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور 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 we can see, every country is above the diagonal line of parity - it means that in all nations baby girls can expect to live longer than a new boy.1

Interestingly, this chart shows that although the female advantage exists everywhere, ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور the country-specific differences are huge. In Russia, women live 10 years more than males. In Bhutan the gap is less that half a year.

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In rich countries the longevity advantage for women was smaller
Let's see how the female longevity advantage has changed in the course of time. The chart below shows men and women's life expectancies when they were born in the US from 1790-2014. Two things stand out.

The first is that there is an upward trend. Men and women in America have longer lives than they used to 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 to be very modest, but it grew substantially over the last century.

By selecting 'Change Country from the chart, you can verify that these two points are also applicable to other countries with available data: Sweden, France and the UK.