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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 | + | 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 are more likely to live longer than men? And why is this difference growing over time? The evidence is limited and we have only incomplete solutions. We know 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 to each of these variables is.<br><br>We know that women are living longer than men, regardless of their weight. But it is not because of certain non-biological aspects have changed. What are the factors that are changing? 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, ended up raising women's longevity disproportionately.<br><br>Everywhere in the world women tend to live longer than men<br>The first chart below shows life expectancy at birth for men and women. We can see that every country is over the line of parity diagonally. This means that a newborn girl from every country could be expected to live for longer than her older brother.<br><br>This graph shows that while there is a female advantage across all countries, differences between countries can be substantial. In Russia women live 10 years longer than men; in Bhutan the gap is less than half a year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>The advantage women had in terms of life expectancy was lower in the richer countries than it is now.<br>Let's see how the female longevity advantage has changed in the course of time. The chart below shows men and women's life expectancies when they were born in the US in the years 1790 to 2014. Two points stand out.<br><br>First, there's an upward trend: Men and women in the US live a lot, [https://glorynote.com العاب زوجية] much longer today than a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.<br><br>The second is that there is an increase in the gap between men and women: female advantage in life expectancy used be quite small however, it has increased significantly over the course of the last century.<br><br>It is possible to verify that the points you've listed are applicable to other [https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/countries countries] that have data by selecting the "Change country" option in the chart. This includes the UK, France, and Sweden. |
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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 are more likely to live longer than men? And why is this difference growing over time? The evidence is limited and we have only incomplete solutions. We know 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 to each of these variables is.
We know that women are living longer than men, regardless of their weight. But it is not because of certain non-biological aspects have changed. What are the factors that are changing? 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, 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 over the line of parity diagonally. This means that a newborn girl from every country could be expected to live for longer than her older brother.
This graph shows that while there is a female advantage across all countries, differences between countries can be substantial. In Russia women live 10 years longer than men; in Bhutan the gap is less than half a year.
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The advantage women had in terms of life expectancy was lower in the richer countries than it is now.
Let's see how the female longevity advantage has changed in the course of time. The chart below shows men and women's life expectancies when they were born in the US in the years 1790 to 2014. Two points stand out.
First, there's an upward trend: Men and women in the US live a lot, العاب زوجية much longer today than a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.
The second is that there is an increase in the gap between men and women: female advantage in life expectancy used be quite small however, it has increased significantly over the course of the last century.
It is possible to verify that the points you've listed are applicable to other countries that have data by selecting the "Change country" option in the chart. This includes the UK, France, and Sweden.
