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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 how has this advantage gotten larger in the past? The evidence isn't conclusive and we're only able to provide limited answers. Although we know that there are biological, psychological as well as environmental factors that play an integral role in women who live longer than men, we don't know what percentage each factor plays in.

We know that women are living longer than men, regardless of weight. However this is not due to the fact that certain biological or non-biological factors have changed. These factors are changing. 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 survivors, ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور 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 ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور men and women. We can see that every country is above the line of parity diagonally. This means that a newborn girl in all countries can expect to live longer than her older brother.

This chart is interesting in that it shows that the advantage of women exists across all countries, the difference between countries is huge. In Russia, women live for 10 years longer than men. In Bhutan the difference is just half a year.

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The advantage for women in life expectancy was much lower in countries with higher incomes than it is now.
Let's look at how female longevity advantage has changed in the course of time. The next chart shows the male and female lifespans when they were born in the US from 1790 to 2014. Two areas stand out.

First, there is an upward trend. Both men and women in the US live a lot, much longer than they did 100 years ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.

There is a widening gap: The female advantage in terms of life expectancy used be extremely small however, it has increased significantly over the last century.

When you click on the option "Change country in the chart, you are able to confirm that the two points are applicable to other countries that have available information: Sweden, France and the UK.