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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 ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور (visit the following site) why is this difference growing in the past? There is only limited evidence and the evidence is not sufficient to support a definitive conclusion. Although we know that there are biological, behavioral and environmental variables which play a significant role in women's longevity more than men, we do not know how much each factor contributes.

In spite of the precise amount of weight, we are aware that a large portion of the reason women live longer than men today and not in the past, has to be due to the fact that several fundamental non-biological factors have changed. What are these new factors? Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Others 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. It is clear that every country is above the line of parity diagonally. This means that a newborn girl in every country can anticipate to live longer than her brothers.

This graph shows that even though women enjoy an advantage across all countries, differences between countries are often significant. In Russia, women live for 10 years longer than males. In Bhutan, the difference is less than half a calendar year.

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In the richer countries, the longevity advantage for women was previously smaller.
Let's look at how the advantage of women in life expectancy has changed over time. The chart below shows male and female life expectancies at the birth in the US in the years 1790 to 2014. Two distinct points stand out.

The first is that there is an upward trend. Men as well as women in the US are living much, much longer than they did 100 years ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.

There is an increase in the gap between men and women: female advantage in life expectancy used be extremely small however it increased dramatically during the last century.

If you select the option "Change country from the chart, you will be able to check that these two points also apply to other countries that have available data: Sweden, France and the UK.