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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 is the reason women live much longer than men today and why does this benefit increase over time? We have only a small amount of evidence and the evidence isn't strong enough to make an unambiguous conclusion. We know that behavioral, biological and environmental factors contribute to the fact that women are healthier than men; However, we're not sure how significant the impact of each of these factors is.

It is known that women are living longer than males, كيفية إقامة علاقة بالصور regardless of weight. However this isn't due to the fact that certain biological factors have changed. These variables are evolving. Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Other 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. We can see that every country is above the diagonal parity line - which means that in every country baby girls can expect to live for longer than a newborn boy.1

The chart above shows that the advantage of women exists everywhere, the global differences are significant. In Russia women have an average of 10 years more than males; while in Bhutan the gap is less than half an hour.

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The advantage for women in life expectancy was smaller in rich countries than it is today.
Let's see how the female longevity advantage has changed in the course of time. The next chart plots male and كيفية إقامة علاقة بالصور female life expectancy when they were born in the US from 1790 to 2014. Two areas stand out.

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

Second, the gap is increasing: While the advantage of women in life expectancy was once very small It has significantly increased with time.

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