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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 main reason women live longer than men? And why has this advantage gotten larger in the past? The evidence isn't conclusive and we're left with only limited solutions. We know that behavioral, biological and environmental factors all contribute to the fact that women have longer lives than men, but we don't know exactly how much the influence of each one of these factors is.

In spite of how much amount of weight, we are aware that at least part of the reason women live so much longer than men today however not as in the past, has to be due to the fact that certain significant non-biological elements have changed. What 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 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 , ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور (visit the following website page) which means that in every country the newborn girl is likely to live longer than a new boy.1

The chart below shows that although there is a women's advantage throughout the world, the differences between countries can be significant. In Russia women have an average of 10 years more than males; while in Bhutan the difference is less than half an hour.

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In wealthy countries, the advantage of women in longevity was previously smaller.
Let's look at how female longevity advantage has changed in the course of time. The following chart shows the male and female lifespans when they were born in the US between 1790 and 2014. Two distinct points stand out.

First, there's an upward trend. Both men as well as women in the US have a much longer life span longer today than a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.

The second is that there is an ever-widening gap: female advantage in terms of life expectancy used to be very small, but it grew substantially during the last century.

You can verify that these points are also applicable to other countries that have data by clicking on the "Change country" option in the chart. This includes the UK, France, and Sweden.