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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 reason women have a longer life span than men? And how has this advantage gotten larger over time? There isn't much evidence and we only have limited answers. We know there are biological, ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور behavioral and environmental factors which play a significant role in women's longevity more than males, it isn't clear how much each one contributes.

We know that women are living longer than men, regardless of their weight. However this is not because of certain biological factors have changed. These are the factors that 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 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. As you can see, every country is above the diagonal parity line , this means in all countries a newborn girl can expect to live longer than a newborn boy.1

The chart below shows that although women have an advantage in all countries, the differences across countries can be significant. In Russia women have a longer life span than men; in Bhutan the gap is just half a year.

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The female advantage in life expectancy was less in the richer countries that it is today.
Let's look at how female longevity advantage has changed over time. The next chart compares the male and female lifespans at birth in the US from 1790 to 2014. Two specific points stand out.

There is an upward trend. Women and men in the United States live longer than they did a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.

Second, there's a widening gap: The female advantage in terms of life expectancy used be extremely small but it increased substantially in the past century.

You can 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.