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? What is the reason does this benefit increase in the past? The evidence is sketchy and we’re left with only incomplete answers. We are aware that behavioral, biological and environmental factors contribute to the fact that women are healthier than men; However, we’re not sure how much the influence of each of these factors is.
In spite of how much weight, we know that at a minimum, the reason women live so much longer than men do today and not in the past, has to have to do with the fact that a number of important non-biological aspects have changed. What are the factors that are changing? Some are well known and relatively straightforward, تحاميل مهبلية (glorynote.com) 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. As you can see, all countries are above the diagonal parity line ; this means that in all countries that a baby girl can be expected to live longer than a newborn boy.1
This chart shows that, while there is a female advantage in all countries, the differences across countries are often significant. In Russia women live 10 years longer than men, while in Bhutan the difference is just half an hour.
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The advantage women had in life expectancy was much lower in rich countries as compared to the present.
We will now examine how the advantage of women in longevity has changed with time. The chart below shows men and women’s life expectancies at the time of birth in the US from 1790 to 2014. Two aspects stand out.
The first is that there is an upward trend: Men as well as women in the US are living much, much longer today than a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.
There is an ever-widening gap: female advantage in life expectancy used to be very modest however it increased dramatically over the course of the last century.
It is possible to verify that these are applicable to other countries with data by clicking the “Change country” option on the chart. This includes the UK, France, and Sweden.
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