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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 women have a longer life span than men? And why is this difference growing over time? There is only limited evidence and the evidence is not sufficient to support an absolute conclusion. We know that behavioral, biological and environmental factors contribute to the fact that women have longer life spans than men, however, we do not know what the contribution of each of these factors is.<br><br>Independently of the exact amount, we can say that a large portion of the reason women live so much longer than men but not previously, has to be due to the fact that several important 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 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. It is clear that every country is above the diagonal line of parity. This means that a newborn girl in every country can anticipate to live longer than her brothers.<br><br>This graph shows that even though women enjoy an advantage throughout the world, the differences between countries can be substantial. In Russia women live 10 years longer than men, while in Bhutan the difference is less than half one year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>In rich countries the longevity advantage for women was smaller<br>Let's look at how female longevity advantage has [https://www.brandsreviews.com/search?keyword=changed changed] over time. The following chart shows the men and women's life expectancies at birth in the US during the period 1790 to 2014. Two aspects stand out.<br><br>First, there is an upward trend. Both genders in the United States live longer than they were 100 years 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 life expectancy used to be very modest, but it grew substantially over the course of the last century.<br><br>You can confirm that these principles are also applicable to other countries with data by clicking on the "Change country" option on the chart. This includes the UK, France, and [https://glorynote.com/%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AA-%D8%AA%D8%B7%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%B1/ زيوت تطويل الشعر] Sweden.