Why Women Live Longer Than Men

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 have a longer life span than men? And how the advantage has grown over time? We only have partial evidence and the evidence is not strong enough to make an unambiguous conclusion. While we are aware that there are behavioral, biological as well as environmental factors that play an integral role in women living longer than males, it isn't clear what percentage each factor plays in.

It is known that women live longer than males, regardless of weight. However this isn't because of certain non-biological aspects have changed. These are the factors that are changing. Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Others 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 ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور 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 over the line of parity diagonally. This means that a newborn girl from every country could expect to live longer than her younger brother.

This chart shows that, even though women enjoy an advantage in all countries, the differences across countries can be significant. In Russia women have a longer life span than men; in Bhutan the difference is just half one year.

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The advantage of women in terms of life expectancy was lower in developed countries than it is today.
Let's examine how the female longevity advantage has changed in the course of time. The next chart plots the male and female lifespans at birth in the US from 1790 to 2014. Two specific points stand ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور out.

First, there's an upward trend. as well as 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.

Second, the gap is widening: While the female advantage in terms of life expectancy was quite small but it has risen significantly over time.

If you select the option "Change country by country' in the chart, you are able to check that these two points also apply to the other countries with available information: Sweden, France and the UK.