Difference between revisions of "Why Women Are More Likely To Live Longer 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 why does this benefit increase in the past? We only have partial evidence and افضل كريم للشعر the evidence is not sufficient to draw an informed conclusion. While we are aware that there are behavioral, biological as well as environmental factors which all play a part in women's longevity more than men, we do not know how much each one contributes.

It is known that women live longer than men, regardless of weight. However it is not because of certain non-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. There are other issues that are more intricate. 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 افضل كريم للشعر 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, every country is above the diagonal parity line , it means that in all nations baby girls can expect to live longer than a new boy.1

This chart shows that, although women have an advantage in all countries, the differences across countries could be significant. In Russia women have an average of 10 years more than men; in Bhutan the gap is less than half a year.

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The female advantage in life expectancy was smaller in the richer countries as compared to the present.
Let's look at how the advantage of women in longevity has changed over time. The next chart compares male and female life expectancies at birth in the US over the period 1790-2014. Two specific points stand out.

There is an upward trend. as well as women in the US live much, much longer than they did 100 years ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.

Second, there's an ever-widening gap: female advantage in terms of life expectancy used to be quite small but it increased substantially over the last century.

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