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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? What is the reason does this benefit increase in the past? The evidence is limited and we have only limited solutions. We recognize that biological, behavioral and environmental factors all play a role in the fact that women have longer life spans than men, but we don't know exactly how much the influence to each of these variables is.<br><br>In spite of the precise amount, we can say that at a minimum, the reason women live longer than men in the present but not in the past, has to relate to the fact that several key non-biological factors have changed. What are the factors that are changing? Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Certain 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, especially for survivors, ended up [https://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=raising%20women%27s 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 [https://glorynote.com/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B0%D8%A7-%D9%8A%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%AB-%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85/ ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور] men and women. It is clear that every country is above the line of parity diagonally. This implies that a baby girl from any country can expect to live longer than her older brother.<br><br>This graph shows that while there is a female advantage everywhere, cross-country differences can be significant. In Russia women live for 10 years longer than males. In Bhutan the difference is less than half a calendar year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>In wealthy countries, the longevity advantage for women was not as great.<br>Let's take a look at how the female longevity advantage has changed in the course of time. The chart below illustrates the gender-based and [https://www.search.com/web?q=female-specific%20life female-specific life] expectancy when they were born in the US between 1790-2014. Two things stand out.<br><br>First, there is an upward trend. Men and women in America have longer lives than they were a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.<br><br>Second, there's an increasing gap: The female advantage in terms of life expectancy used to be extremely small, but it grew substantially during the last century.<br><br>When you click on the option "Change country' on the chart, determine if these two points apply to the other countries having available data: Sweden, France and the UK.