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 are more likely to live longer than men? And why the advantage has grown as time passes? We only have partial evidence and كيفية ممارسة العلاقة الزوجية فى الاسلام [glorynote.com] the evidence isn’t sufficient to support an unambiguous conclusion. We know there are biological, behavioral and environmental factors that play an integral role in the longevity of women over males, it isn’t clear how much each factor contributes.
We are aware that women live longer than men, regardless of their weight. But, this is not due to the fact that certain biological factors have changed. What are these new factors? Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. There are other issues 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. It is clear that all countries are above the line of parity diagonally. This implies that a baby girl from any country can anticipate to live longer than her brothers.
The chart above shows that the advantage of women exists across all countries, the difference between countries is huge. In Russia women live 10 years longer than males. In Bhutan there is a difference of only half a year.
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The advantage women had in terms of life expectancy was lower in developed countries as compared to the present.
We will now examine how the gender advantage in life expectancy has changed over time. The following chart shows male and female life expectancies at birth in the US from 1790 to 2014. Two points stand out.
The first is that there is an upward trend. Men and women in the United States live longer than they used to 100 years ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.
There is an increase in the gap between men and women: female advantage in life expectancy used be very modest however it increased dramatically during the last century.
You can check if the points you’ve listed are applicable to other countries that have data by clicking the “Change country” option on the chart. This includes the UK, France, and Sweden.
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