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. What's the reason women are more likely to live longer than men? And why has this advantage gotten larger as time passes? We only have a few clues and the evidence is not sufficient to reach a definitive conclusion. We know that biological, behavioral and environmental factors play a role in the fact that women live longer than men; however, we aren't sure how significant the impact of each one of these factors is.

In spite of the amount of weight, we are aware that a large portion of the reason why women live so much longer than men do today but not in the past, is to have to do with the fact that a number of fundamental non-biological factors have changed. These variables are evolving. Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Others are more complicated. For example, كيفية ممارسة العلاقة الزوجية فى الاسلام 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 ; this means in all countries baby girls can expect to live longer than a newborn boy.1

This chart illustrates that, كيفية ممارسة العلاقة الزوجية فى الاسلام while there is a female advantage in all countries, the differences across countries could be significant. In Russia women have a longer life span than men, while in Bhutan the gap is less than half each year.

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In the richer countries, the female advantage in longevity was not as great.
Let's look at how the female advantage in longevity has changed with time. The chart below illustrates the male and female life expectancy at birth in the US between 1790-2014. Two distinct points stand out.

First, 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.

The second is that there is an increasing gap: The female advantage in life expectancy used be very modest however, it has increased significantly over the course of the last century.

Using the option 'Change country' on the chart, you will be able to determine if these two points also apply to the other countries having available information: Sweden, France and the UK.