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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 is the reason women live longer than men in the present and how has this advantage increased in the past? The evidence is limited and we're only able to provide some solutions. We know that biological, behavioral and environmental factors all contribute to the fact that women live longer than men; however, we aren't sure how much the [https://search.un.org/results.php?query=influence influence] of each one of these factors is.<br><br>Independently of the exact amount, we can say that at a minimum, the reason women live so much longer than men today, but not in the past, is to be due to the fact that several important non-biological aspects have changed. What are these changing factors? Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Other 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, [https://glorynote.com/%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3/ ابر التخسيس] 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 , which means that in every country baby girls can expect to live for longer than a newborn boy.1<br><br>It is interesting to note that while the female advantage exists everywhere, the difference between countries is huge. In Russia women live 10 years longer than men, [https://www.state737.com/index.php?title=User:DonnaEberhart13 ابر التخسيس] while in Bhutan the gap is just half each year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>In countries with high incomes, the women's advantage in longevity was previously smaller.<br>Let's take a look at how the female longevity advantage has changed in the course of time. The next chart shows the male and female lifespans at birth in the US between 1790 and 2014. Two aspects stand out.<br><br>First, there's an upward trend. Men as well as women in the US live much, much longer today than a century ago. This is in line with [https://pixabay.com/images/search/historical/ historical] increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.<br><br>Second, there's a widening gap: The female advantage in terms of life expectancy used to be quite small however it increased dramatically during the last century.<br><br>Using the option 'Change country in the chart, you are able to confirm that the two points are also applicable to the other countries having available data: Sweden, France and the UK.