Difference between revisions of "Why Do Women Have Longer Lives 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 makes women live longer than men in the present and how has this advantage increased in the past? There is only limited evidence and كيفية إقامة علاقة بالصور the evidence is not sufficient to reach a definitive conclusion. We are aware that behavioral, biological and environmental factors all play a role in the fact that women are healthier than men; but we don't know exactly how significant the impact of each of these factors is.

In spite of how much weight, we know that at least a portion of the reason why women live longer than men today but not previously, is to relate to the fact that certain key non-biological factors have changed. What are these new factors? Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. There are others that are more intricate. For كيفية إقامة علاقة بالصور 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. It is clear that all countries are over the diagonal line of parity. This implies that a baby girl from every country could anticipate to live longer than her brother.

This graph shows that although there is a women's advantage everywhere, cross-country differences are often significant. In Russia women live 10 years longer than men; in Bhutan the gap is just half one year.

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The advantage for women in terms of life expectancy was lower in developed countries than it is today.
Let's see how the female longevity advantage has changed over time. The following chart shows the men and women's life expectancies at birth in the US during the period 1790 until 2014. Two points stand out.

First, there is an upward trend. Both genders in the United States live longer than they were 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 be quite small however, it has increased significantly over the last century.

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