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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 much longer than men today, and why is this difference growing in the past? The evidence is sketchy and we're left with only partial solutions. We recognize that biological, behavioral and environmental factors play a role in the fact that women have longer life spans than men, صبغ الشعر بالاسود ([https://glorynote.com/ recent Glorynote blog post]) However, we're not sure how much the influence of each of these factors is.<br><br>We know that women are living longer than men, regardless of their weight. However it is not 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. 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, so advances in medicine that [https://www.rt.com/search?q=reduced 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 line of parity diagonally. This implies that a baby girl from every country could be [https://www.cbsnews.com/search/?q=expected expected] to live for longer than her younger brother.<br><br>This graph shows that although there is a women's advantage in all countries, the differences across countries are often significant. In Russia women live 10 years more than males. In Bhutan, the difference is just half a year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>In the richer countries, the longevity advantage for women was previously smaller.<br>Let's take a look at how the female longevity advantage has changed in the course of time. The chart below shows male and female life expectancy at birth in the US during the period 1790-2014. Two points stand out.<br><br>There is an upward trend. Both genders in America have longer lives than they used to 100 years ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.<br><br>The gap is widening: While the advantage of women in life expectancy used to be very small, it has increased substantially over time.<br><br>When you click on the option "Change country by country' in the chart, verify that these two points apply to other countries with available information: Sweden, France and the UK.