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. Why do women live so longer than men, and why does this benefit increase in the past? We have only a small amount of evidence and كيفية ممارسة العلاقة الزوجية فى الاسلام the evidence is not sufficient to reach an absolute conclusion. We are aware that behavioral, biological and environmental factors play a role in the fact that women live longer than men; however, we aren't sure how much the influence of each factor كيفية ممارسة العلاقة الزوجية فى الاسلام is.

We know that women live longer than men, regardless of weight. But, this is not because of certain 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. Some are more complex. 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. As we can see, every country is above the diagonal line of parity - this means in all countries the newborn girl is likely to live longer than a new boy.1

This chart shows that, although there is a women's advantage in all countries, the differences across countries could be significant. In Russia women live 10 years longer than males. In Bhutan the difference is just half a year.

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The advantage of women in life expectancy was less in the richer countries than it is today.
Let's examine how the female advantage in longevity has changed over time. The chart below illustrates the gender-based and female-specific life expectancy at the birth in the US in the years 1790 to 2014. Two aspects stand out.

First, there is an upward trend. Women and men in America have longer lives than they were 100 years 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 life expectancy used to be tiny however, it has grown significantly in the past.

Using the option 'Change country by country' in the chart, you will be able to verify that these two points apply to other countries that have available data: Sweden, France and the UK.