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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 makes women live longer than men and why is this difference growing over time? We only have a few clues and the evidence isn't sufficient to support an informed conclusion. We know that biological, behavioral and environmental factors play a role in the fact that women have longer life spans than men, but we don't know exactly how significant the impact of each one of these factors is.<br><br>In spite of the precise amount of weight, we are aware that at least a portion of the reason why women live longer than men in the present, العاب زوجية ([https://glorynote.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A9/ Glorynote wrote in a blog post]) but not in the past, has to have to do with the fact that several key non-biological factors have changed. What are these factors that have changed? Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. There are others 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. As we can see, all countries are above the diagonal parity line - this means in all countries the newborn girl is likely to live for longer than a new boy.1<br><br>This graph shows that although women have an [https://www.buzznet.com/?s=advantage advantage] throughout the world, the differences between countries can be significant. In Russia women live 10 years more than males. In Bhutan there is a difference of less than half a calendar year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>In the richer countries, the women's advantage in longevity used to be smaller<br>Let's examine how the advantage of women in terms of longevity has changed over time. The chart below shows gender-based and female-specific life [https://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=expectancy expectancy] at birth in the US during the period 1790-2014. Two aspects stand out.<br><br>First, there is an upward trend. Both genders in America have longer lives than they were 100 years ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.<br><br>There is a widening gap: The female advantage in life expectancy used be very small, but it grew substantially in the past century.<br><br>By selecting 'Change Country in the chart, you are able to check that these two points are also applicable to other countries with available data: Sweden, France and the UK.