Difference between revisions of "Why Are Women Living 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's the reason why women are more likely to live longer than men? What is the reason the advantage has grown over time? The evidence isn't conclusive and we're only able to provide limited solutions. Although we know that there are biological, behavioral and ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور environmental factors that all play a role in women living longer than men, we do not know the extent to which each factor plays a role.

In spite of the precise amount of weight, we are aware that at least a portion of the reason why women live longer than men but not in the past, is to do with the fact that certain key non-biological factors have changed. These variables are evolving. Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Others are more complicated. 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. As you can see, ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور all countries are above the diagonal line of parity - this means that in all countries that a baby girl can be expected to live longer than a new boy.1

This chart illustrates that, although women have an advantage in all countries, the differences across countries are often significant. In Russia, women live for 10 years longer than males. In Bhutan, the difference is only half a year.

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The female advantage in life expectancy was smaller in countries with higher incomes that it is today.
Let's look at how the advantage of women in longevity has changed with time. The following chart shows the gender-based and female-specific life expectancy when they were born in the US in the years 1790 to 2014. Two specific points stand out.

There is an upward trend. Men as well as women in the US live a lot, much longer than they did a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.

The second is that there is an ever-widening gap: female advantage in terms of life expectancy used to be extremely small but it increased substantially in the past century.

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