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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 women are more likely to live longer than men? And why is this difference growing as time passes? The evidence is limited and we have only partial solutions. We know 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 of each one of these factors is.

In spite of how much amount of weight, we are aware that at least part of the reason why women live longer than men in the present but not previously, has to have to do with the fact that certain significant non-biological elements have changed. These variables are evolving. 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, ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور 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. We can see that every country is above the diagonal parity line ; this means that in all countries a newborn girl can expect to live longer than a new boy.1

This graph shows that although there is a women's advantage throughout the world, the differences between countries can be significant. In Russia women have a longer life span than men, while in Bhutan the gap is less than half an hour.

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In rich countries the longevity advantage for women was smaller
We will now examine how the female advantage in longevity has changed over time. The chart below shows men and ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور women's life expectancies at the birth in the US from 1790-2014. Two areas stand out.

First, there is an upward trend. as well as women in the US are living much, much longer than they did a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.

Second, the gap is increasing: While the advantage of women in life expectancy was tiny but it has risen significantly over time.

When you click on the option "Change country by country' in the chart, verify that these two points apply to other countries that have available information: Sweden, France and the UK.