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? Why has this advantage gotten larger as time passes? There isn't much evidence and we have only limited solutions. We are aware that behavioral, biological and environmental factors play a role in the fact that women have longer lives than men, However, العاب زوجية we're not sure how significant the impact of each one of these factors is.

We are aware that women are living longer than men, regardless of weight. However this is not because of certain biological factors have changed. The factors changing are numerous. Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. There are others that are more intricate. 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, every country is above the diagonal parity line ; this means in all countries the newborn girl is likely to live for longer than a newborn boy.1

The chart below shows that although women have an advantage across all countries, differences between countries are often significant. In Russia women are 10 years older than men. In Bhutan the difference is less than half one year.

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The advantage for women in life expectancy was much lower in developed countries than it is today.
Let's examine how the female longevity advantage has changed in the course of time. The following chart shows the male and female life expectancy when they were born in the US in the years 1790 to 2014. Two aspects stand out.

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

And second, there is an ever-widening gap: female advantage in life expectancy used to be very modest, but it grew substantially during the last century.

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