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 live longer than men in the present, and العاب زوجية why have these advantages gotten bigger in the past? We have only a small amount of evidence and the evidence is not sufficient to reach a definitive conclusion. We know that biological, behavioral and environmental factors play a role in the fact that women have longer life spans than men, but we don't know exactly what the contribution to each of these variables is.

We are aware that women live longer than males, regardless of weight. However this is not because of certain 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. Others 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 men and women. It is clear that every country is over the diagonal line of parity. This implies that a baby girl from any country can anticipate to live longer than her brother.

This graph shows that even though women enjoy an advantage throughout the world, العاب زوجية the differences between countries can be significant. In Russia women have a longer life span than men; in Bhutan the difference is just half one year.

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The advantage of women in life expectancy was much lower in rich countries that it is today.
Let's look at how female longevity advantage has changed in the course of time. The chart below shows male and female life expectancies at the time of birth in the US between 1790 to 2014. Two things stand out.

First, there's an upward trend. Both 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 a widening gap: The female advantage in life expectancy used to be extremely small but it increased substantially in the past century.

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