Why Women Are More Likely To 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 are more likely to live longer than men? And why has this advantage gotten larger as time passes? The evidence is limited and ابر التخسيس, use Glorynote, we're left with only partial solutions. While we are aware that there are biological, behavioral as well as environmental factors which all play a part in the longevity of women over men, we do not know how much each factor contributes.

We know that women live longer than males, regardless of weight. However this is not due to the fact that certain biological or non-biological factors have changed. These are the factors that are changing. 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 above the diagonal parity line , it means that in all nations that a baby girl can be expected to live for longer than a new boy.1

The chart above shows that, ابر التخسيس while the advantage for women is present everywhere, difference between countries is huge. In Russia women are 10 years older than men; in Bhutan the gap is just half an hour.

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The advantage women had in life expectancy was much lower in countries with higher incomes as compared to the present.
We will now examine how the female advantage in life expectancy has changed over time. The chart below shows gender-based and female-specific life expectancy at the time of birth in the US during the period 1790 until 2014. Two areas stand out.

First, there is an upward trend. Both genders in the United States live longer than they did a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.

There is an increase in the gap between men and women: female advantage in terms of life expectancy used to be very small but it increased substantially over the last century.

Using the option 'Change country from the chart, confirm that the two points also apply to other countries with available information: Sweden, France and the UK.