Difference between revisions of "Why Women Are More Likely To Live Longer Than Men"

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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 are more likely to live longer than men? What is the reason the advantage has grown in the past? The evidence isn't conclusive and we only have incomplete answers. We know there are biological, behavioral and environmental variables which play a significant role in the longevity of women over males, it isn't clear how much each one contributes.

It is known that women are living longer than males, regardless of weight. But this is not due to the fact that certain biological or non-biological factors have changed. What are the factors that are changing? Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Other are more complicated. For تحاميل مهبلية 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 men and women. As we can see, every country is above the diagonal parity line , which means that in every country the newborn girl is likely to live longer than a newborn boy.1

It is interesting to note that, while the advantage for women exists in all countries, global differences are significant. In Russia, women live for 10 years longer than men. In Bhutan the difference is only half a year.

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In rich countries the advantage of women in longevity was not as great.
We will now examine how the advantage of women in terms of longevity has changed over time. The chart below illustrates the male and تحاميل مهبلية female life expectancy at birth in the US from 1790-2014. Two areas stand out.

The first is that there is an upward trend. Women and men living in America are living longer than they were 100 years ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.

The second is that there is an increasing gap: The female advantage in life expectancy used be quite small, but it grew substantially during the last century.

When you click on the option "Change country from the chart, determine if these two points are also applicable to other countries that have available information: Sweden, France and the UK.