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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 why women have a longer life span than men? And how is this difference growing over time? We only have partial evidence and the evidence isn't sufficient to support an unambiguous conclusion. We know that behavioral, biological and environmental factors contribute to the fact that women are healthier than men; however, we do not know how much the influence of each one of these factors is.

Independently of the exact weight, we know that at least a portion of the reason why women live longer than men today but not previously, is to be due to the fact that certain significant non-biological elements have changed. What are these factors that have changed? Some are well known and اضيق وضعية للجماع, head to the glorynote.com site, relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Others 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, 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, all countries are above the diagonal line of parity - this means that in all countries that a baby girl can be expected to live for longer than a newborn boy.1

The chart above shows that the advantage of women exists everywhere, the cross-country differences are large. In Russia women have an average of 10 years more than men, while in Bhutan the difference is just half a year.

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The advantage for women in life expectancy was less in rich countries that it is today.
Let's examine how the female longevity advantage has changed over time. The following chart shows male and female life expectancies at birth in the US over the period 1790-2014. Two distinct features stand out.

First, there is an upward trend. Men and اضيق وضعية للجماع women in America have longer lives than they were a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.

The gap is increasing: While the female advantage in terms of life expectancy was tiny but it has risen significantly in the past.

If you select the option "Change country by country' in the chart, confirm that the two points are applicable to the other countries with available data: Sweden, France and the UK.