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 main reason women live longer than men? And how the advantage has grown as time passes? We only have partial evidence and the evidence isn’t sufficient to support an informed conclusion. While we are aware that there are biological, psychological as well as environmental factors which all play a part in the longevity of women over males, we aren’t sure what percentage each factor plays in.
In spite of how much amount of weight, we are aware that at least a portion of the reason why women live so much longer than men today and not in the past, has to do with the fact that some 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. 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 you can see, every country is above the diagonal parity line , this means in all countries that a baby girl can be expected to live longer than a newborn boy.1
The chart above shows that, while the advantage for زيوت تطويل الشعر women exists everywhere, the global differences are significant. In Russia women have an average of 10 years more than men; in Bhutan the gap is less than half one year.
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In the richer countries, the longevity advantage for women was previously smaller.
Let’s take a look at how the female longevity advantage has changed in the course of time. The chart below illustrates the gender-based and female-specific life expectancy at the time of birth in the US from 1790 until 2014. Two areas stand out.
First, there is an upward trend. Both genders in the United States live longer than they were 100 years ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.
The gap is growing: Although the female advantage in life expectancy was once tiny however, it has grown significantly over time.
Using the option ‘Change country’ on the chart, you are able to check that these two points apply to other countries that have available information: Sweden, France and the UK.
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