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 reason women live longer than men? And why has this advantage gotten larger in the past? We have only a small amount of evidence and the evidence isn’t sufficient to support an unambiguous conclusion. We know there are biological, psychological and environmental variables that play an integral role in women living longer than males, we aren’t sure how much each factor contributes.
We have learned that women live longer than men, regardless of weight. But it is not due to the fact that certain biological or non-biological factors have changed. These are the factors that are changing. 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, العاب زوجية 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. We can see that all countries are above the diagonal line of parity. This implies that a baby girl in every country can anticipate to live longer than her younger brother.
This graph shows that even though women enjoy an advantage across all countries, العاب زوجية differences between countries can be substantial. In Russia women live 10 years more than males. In Bhutan the difference is less that half a year.
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The advantage for women in life expectancy was smaller in the richer countries that it is today.
Let’s look at how female longevity advantage has changed in the course of time. The chart below shows men and women’s life expectancies when they were born in the US during the period 1790 until 2014. Two specific points stand out.
The first is that there is an upward trend. Women and men living in America are living longer than they were 100 years ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.
The gap is increasing: While the advantage of women in life expectancy used to be tiny but it has risen significantly over time.
It is possible to verify that the points you’ve listed 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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