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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 why women have a longer life span than men? And how has this advantage gotten larger in the past? The evidence is [https://www.buzzfeed.com/search?q=sketchy sketchy] and we're only able to provide incomplete answers. Although we know that there are behavioral, biological, and environmental factors which all play a part in women living longer than men, we don't know how much each one contributes.<br><br>We are aware that women are living longer than men, regardless of weight. However this is not due to the fact that certain biological or non-biological factors have changed. These factors are changing. Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Some are more complex. 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, [https://glorynote.com/%D8%A3%D8%B6%D9%8A%D9%82-%D9%88%D8%B6%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9/ اضيق وضعية للجماع] so advances in medicine that reduced the long-term health burden from infectious diseases, especially for survivors, ended up raising women's longevity disproportionately.<br><br>Everywhere in the world women tend to live longer than men<br>The first chart below shows life expectancy at birth for men and [http://videos-francois.fr/wiki/index.php?title=Utilisateur:AnnmarieMcQuay اضيق وضعية للجماع] women. We can see that every country is above the diagonal parity line ; this means that in all countries that a baby girl can be expected to live for longer than a new boy.1<br><br>It is interesting to note that while the female advantage is present everywhere, country-specific differences are huge. In Russia women have a longer life span than males; while in Bhutan the gap is just half each year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>In countries with high incomes, the longevity advantage for women was not as great.<br>Let's see how the female longevity advantage has changed over time. The next chart plots male and female life expectancies at birth in the US between 1790 and 2014. Two areas stand out.<br><br>There is an upward trend. Both men and women in the US have a much longer life span longer today than a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.<br><br>There is an increasing gap: The female advantage in terms of life expectancy used to be very modest however, it has increased significantly during the last century.<br><br>Using the option 'Change country in the chart, confirm that the two points are also applicable to the other countries having available data: Sweden, France and the UK.