Difference between revisions of "Why Do Women 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. Why do women live so more than men do today and ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور (glorynote.com) why have these advantages gotten bigger in the past? There is only limited evidence and the evidence isn't sufficient to support a definitive conclusion. Although we know that there are biological, behavioral and environmental factors which play a significant role in women living longer than men, we don't know how much each one contributes.

Independently of the exact weight, we know that at a minimum, the reason why women live longer than men however not as previously, is to be due to the fact that certain important non-biological aspects have changed. These variables are evolving. 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, 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 - which means that in every country a newborn girl can expect to live longer than a new boy.1

The chart below shows that although women have an advantage throughout the world, the differences between countries could be significant. In Russia women are 10 years older than males; while in Bhutan the difference is just half one year.

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The advantage women had in life expectancy was much lower in countries with higher incomes as compared to the present.
Let's see how the female longevity advantage has changed in the course of time. The following chart shows the gender-based and female-specific life expectancy at the birth in the US from 1790 until 2014. Two things stand out.

First, there's an upward trend. and women in the US live a lot, much longer today than a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.

The gap is growing: Although the advantage of women in terms of life expectancy was tiny, it has increased substantially in the past.

When you click on the option "Change country from the chart, verify that these two points are applicable to the other countries with available data: Sweden, France and the UK.