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 how the advantage has grown as time passes? There is only limited evidence and the evidence isn’t sufficient to reach a definitive conclusion. We know that behavioral, biological and environmental factors all contribute to the fact that women live longer than men; However, we’re not sure how much the influence of each of these factors is.
We are aware that women live longer than men, regardless of their weight. But it is not because of certain biological or non-biological factors have changed. The factors changing are numerous. Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Other 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, اضيق وضعية للجماع (https://Glorynote.com/) 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, all countries are above the diagonal parity line , this means in all countries baby girls can expect to live for longer than a new boy.1
Interestingly, this chart shows that, while the advantage for women exists in all countries, global differences are significant. In Russia women are 10 years older than males; while in Bhutan the gap is less than half one year.
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The advantage women had in life expectancy was smaller in the richer countries than it is now.
Let’s now look at how the advantage of women in terms of longevity has changed over time. The following chart shows the gender-based and female-specific life expectancy when they were born in the US in the years 1790-2014. Two areas stand out.
First, there is an upward trend. Both genders in America live longer than they used to a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.
Second, there’s an increase in the gap between men and women: female advantage in life expectancy used be very modest but it increased substantially over the course of the last century.
You can confirm that these are applicable to other countries that have data by clicking the “Change country” option in the chart. This includes the UK, France, and Sweden.
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