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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. Why do women live so much longer than men today, and why has this advantage increased over time? We have only a small amount of evidence and the evidence isn't strong enough to make an unambiguous conclusion. We know that biological, behavioral and environmental factors all contribute to the fact that women have longer lives than men, however, we do not know what the contribution of each of these factors is.<br><br>We know that women live longer than men, regardless of their weight. However this isn't because of certain non-biological aspects 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.<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 women. We can see that every country is over the diagonal line of parity. This means that a newborn girl in all countries can be expected to live for [https://glorynote.com/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84/ كيفية ممارسة العلاقة الزوجية فى الاسلام] longer than her younger brother.<br><br>It is interesting to note that the advantage of women exists across all countries, the global differences are significant. In Russia women have an average of 10 years more than men; in Bhutan the gap is less than half one year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>In wealthy countries, the advantage of women in longevity used to be smaller<br>We will now examine how the female advantage in longevity has changed with time. The next chart shows male and female life expectancies at birth in the US between 1790 and 2014. Two areas stand out.<br><br>The first is that there is an upward trend. Both men as well as women in the US live much, much longer than they did a [https://www.b2bmarketing.net/en-gb/search/site/century%20ago century ago]. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.<br><br>The second is that there is an ever-widening gap: female advantage in terms of life expectancy used to be very small but it increased substantially over the last century.<br><br>You can check if these are applicable to other countries with information by [https://edition.cnn.com/search?q=clicking clicking] on the "Change country" option in the chart. This includes the UK, France, and Sweden.