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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 is the reason women live longer than men? What is the reason does this benefit increase as time passes? We only have partial evidence and the evidence isn't sufficient to support an informed conclusion. We know that behavioral, biological and environmental factors contribute to the fact that women live longer than men; but we don't know exactly how strong the relative contribution to each of these variables is.<br><br>It is known that women live longer than males, regardless of weight. However this is not because of certain non-biological factors have changed. What are these factors that have changed? 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 [https://edition.cnn.com/search?q=century 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.<br><br>Everywhere in the world [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/search?query=women%20tend women tend] to live longer than men<br>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 in all countries can anticipate to live longer than her older brother.<br><br>This chart shows that, while there is a female advantage in all countries, the differences across countries could be significant. In Russia women live 10 years more than males. In Bhutan, the difference is less than half a calendar year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>In the richer countries, the female advantage in longevity was not as great.<br>Let's see how the female longevity advantage has changed over time. The following chart shows the gender-based and female-specific life expectancy when they were born in the US from 1790 to 2014. Two points stand out.<br><br>First, there is an upward trend: Men and 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.<br><br>Second, [https://glorynote.com/%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3/ ابر التخسيس] there's an ever-widening gap: female advantage in life expectancy used to be extremely small however, it has increased significantly during the last century.<br><br>Using the option 'Change country by country' in the chart, you are able to determine if these two points are applicable to the other countries having available data: Sweden, France and the UK.