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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 [https://www.google.com/search?q=century&btnI=lucky century]. Why do women live so more than men do today and why does this benefit increase in the past? The evidence isn't conclusive and [https://glorynote.com/%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%84-%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF/ علامات الحمل بولد] we have only limited solutions. Although we know that there are biological, behavioral as well as environmental factors which all play a part in women's longevity more than men, we do not know how much each one contributes.<br><br>We are aware that women live longer than men, regardless of weight. However it is not because of certain biological or non-biological factors have changed. What are these changing factors? Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Others 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. As you can see, all countries are above the diagonal parity line , it means that in all nations that a baby girl can be expected to live for longer than a newborn boy.1<br><br>This chart is interesting in that it shows that the advantage of women exists everywhere, the difference between countries is huge. In Russia, women live 10 years longer than males. In Bhutan the difference is only half a year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>In the richer countries, the advantage of women in longevity was previously smaller.<br>We will now examine how the female advantage in longevity has [https://discover.hubpages.com/search?query=changed changed] over time. The chart below shows men and women's life expectancies at the time of birth in the US between 1790-2014. Two aspects stand out.<br><br>First, there is an upward trend. and women in the US are living much, much longer than they did 100 years ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.<br><br>The second is that there is an increasing gap: The female advantage in life expectancy used be quite small however it increased dramatically in the past century.<br><br>If you select the option "Change country in the chart, confirm that the two points also apply to the other countries having available data: Sweden, France and the UK.