Difference between revisions of "Why Women Are More Likely To Live Longer Than Men"

Revision as of 09:06, 12 January 2022

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 much longer than men today, and why does this benefit increase in the past? The evidence is limited and we have only partial solutions. We are aware that behavioral, biological and environmental factors all play a role in the fact that women have longer lives than men, but we don't know exactly how significant the impact of each factor is.

Independently of the exact amount of weight, ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور we are aware that at a minimum, the reason women live so much longer than men do today, but not previously, is to have to do with the fact that a number of important non-biological aspects have changed. What are these changing factors? Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Certain 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 ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور 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. We can see that all countries are above the diagonal line of parity. This implies that a baby girl from any country can be expected to live for longer than her younger brother.

Interestingly, this chart shows that, while the advantage for women exists everywhere, the cross-country differences are large. In Russia women live 10 years longer than males. In Bhutan the gap is only half a year.

__S.17__
__S.19__
In rich countries the women's advantage in longevity was previously smaller.
Let's now look at the way that female advantages in life expectancy has changed over time. The next chart shows the life expectancy of males and females when they were born in the US between 1790 and 2014. Two specific points stand out.

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

Second, there's an ever-widening gap: female advantage in life expectancy used to be quite small however, it has increased significantly in the past century.

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