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 longer than men in the present, and why have these advantages gotten bigger in the past? The evidence is sketchy and we have only partial answers. We know that biological, behavioral and environmental factors all play a role in the fact that women have longer lives than men, however, we do not know what the contribution of each factor is.
We have learned that women live longer than men, regardless of weight. However it is not due to the fact that certain biological or non-biological factors have changed. These variables are evolving. 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 زيوت تطويل الشعر women. We can see that all countries are above the line of parity diagonally. This implies that a baby girl from any country can expect to live longer than her older brother.
Interestingly, this chart shows that, while the advantage for women is present everywhere, difference between countries is huge. In Russia women have an average of 10 years more than men; in Bhutan the difference is less than half each year.
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In the richer countries, the women’s advantage in longevity was not as great.
Let’s now look at how the advantage of women in life expectancy has changed over time. The chart below illustrates the male and female life expectancy when they were born in the US from 1790 to 2014. Two distinct features stand out.
First, there’s an upward trend. and women in the US live a lot, much longer today than a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.
Second, the gap is growing: Although the advantage of women in life expectancy was once very small but it has risen significantly in the past.
You can verify that the points you’ve listed are applicable to other countries that have data by clicking on the “Change country” option on the chart. This includes the UK, زيوت تطويل الشعر France, and Sweden.
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