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's the main reason women have a longer life span than men? What is the reason does this benefit increase as time passes? We only have partial evidence and اضيق وضعية للجماع (https://glorynote.com/%D8%A3%D8%B6%D9%8A%D9%82-%D9%88%D8%B6%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9) the evidence isn't sufficient to support an absolute conclusion. We recognize that biological, behavioral and environmental factors all contribute to the fact that women have longer lives than men, however, we aren't sure how significant the impact of each of these factors is.

We are aware that women are living longer than men, regardless of weight. However this isn't due to the fact that certain non-biological aspects have changed. These factors are changing. Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. There are others that are more intricate. For اضيق وضعية للجماع 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 we can see, all countries are above the diagonal line of parity - which means that in every country that a baby girl can be expected to live longer than a new boy.1

It is interesting to note that the advantage of women is present everywhere, global differences are significant. In Russia women live for 10 years longer than males. In Bhutan the gap is less that half a year.

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The advantage women had in life expectancy was much lower in the richer countries than it is now.
Let's now look at the way that female advantages in longevity has changed over time. The next chart shows male and female life expectancy when they were born in the US from 1790 to 2014. Two distinct features stand out.

First, there is an upward trend. Men and women living in America are living 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 an ever-widening gap: female advantage in terms of life expectancy used to be very modest, but it grew substantially over the last century.

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