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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 longer than men? And why is this difference growing over time? We have only a small amount of evidence and the evidence is not sufficient to draw an informed conclusion. We know that behavioral, biological and environmental factors all contribute to the fact that women have longer lives than men, however, we do not know how strong the relative contribution of each factor is.

In spite of how much number of pounds, we know that a large portion of the reason women live so much longer than men but not in the past, is to do with the fact that certain significant non-biological elements have changed. What are these factors that have changed? Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. There are others that are more intricate. 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 all countries are over the diagonal line of parity. This implies that a baby girl from any country can anticipate to live longer than her brothers.

The chart below shows that while there is a female advantage throughout the world, the differences between countries can be significant. In Russia women live 10 years longer than men, while in Bhutan the gap is less than half each year.

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The advantage women had in life expectancy was much lower in the richer countries than it is today.
Let's examine how the advantage of women in longevity has changed over time. The next chart shows the life expectancy of males and ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور females when they were born in the US during the time period between 1790 and 2014. Two things stand out.

The first is that there is an upward trend: Men as well as women in the US have a much longer life span longer than they did 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 life expectancy was extremely small but it has risen significantly over time.

You can confirm that these are applicable to other countries that have data by clicking on the "Change country" option in the chart. This includes the UK, ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور France, and Sweden.