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. Why do women live much longer than men today and how has this advantage increased over time? There isn't much evidence and we're left with only some solutions. We are aware that behavioral, biological and environmental factors play a role in the fact that women have longer lives than men, however, we aren't sure what the contribution to each of these variables is.

In spite of the number of pounds, we know that at least a portion of the reason why women live longer than men today, but not in the past, has to be due to the fact that several important non-biological aspects have changed. What are these factors that have changed? 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 - click through the following web page, men and women. As we can see, all countries are above the diagonal parity line ; which means that in every country baby girls can expect to live for longer than a new boy.1

It is interesting to note that while the female advantage is present everywhere, cross-country differences are large. In Russia, اضيق وضعية للجماع women live for 10 years longer than males. In Bhutan, the difference is less that half a year.

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The female advantage in life expectancy was much lower in rich countries that it is today.
We will now examine the way that female advantages in terms of longevity has changed over time. The chart below illustrates the gender-based and female-specific life expectancy when they were born in the US in the years 1790 to 2014. Two points stand out.

The first is that there is an upward trend. Men as well as women in the US have a much longer life span longer than they did a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.

Second, there's an increasing gap: The female advantage in life expectancy used be very modest however it increased dramatically in the past century.

You can check if these principles are also applicable to other countries that have data by clicking the "Change country" option in the chart. This includes the UK, France, and Sweden.