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 main reason women are more likely to live longer than men? What is the reason the advantage has grown in the past? We have only a small amount of evidence and the evidence isn't sufficient to support an informed conclusion. We know that biological, behavioral and environmental factors contribute to the fact that women have longer life spans than men, but we don't know exactly how significant the impact to each of these variables is.

In spite of how much number of pounds, we know that at least part of the reason why women live so much longer than men in the present, but not in the past, has to relate to the fact that some fundamental non-biological factors have changed. These factors are changing. Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Other 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 كيفية ممارسة العلاقة الزوجية فى الاسلام women. We can see that every country is over the line of parity diagonally. This means that a newborn girl from any country can anticipate to live longer than her brother.

This chart is interesting in that it shows that while the female advantage exists in all countries, global differences are significant. In Russia, women live 10 years more than men. In Bhutan, the difference is less than half a calendar year.

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In wealthy countries, the women's advantage in longevity was smaller
Let's look at the way that female advantages in life expectancy has changed over time. The following chart shows male and female life expectancies at birth in the US between 1790 and 2014. Two aspects stand out.

There is an upward trend. and women in the US are living much, much longer than they did 100 years ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.

The second is that there is a widening gap: The female advantage in terms of life expectancy used to be quite small however it increased dramatically in the past century.

You can check if the points you've listed are applicable to other countries that have information by clicking on the "Change country" option on the chart. This includes the UK, France, and Sweden.