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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 main reason women live longer than men? And how does this benefit increase as time passes? We only have a few clues and the evidence is not strong enough to make an absolute conclusion. We are aware that behavioral, biological and environmental factors play a role in the fact that women live longer than men; but we don't know exactly what the contribution of each factor is.<br><br>We have learned that women live longer than males, regardless of weight. But this is not due to the fact that certain non-biological aspects have changed. These are the factors that are changing. 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, 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 [http://leinwandprint24.com/index.php?title=Why_Women_Are_More_Likely_To_Live_Longer_Than_Men صبغ الشعر بالاسود] women. We can see that every country is above the diagonal parity line , this means that in all countries a newborn girl can expect to live for longer than a new boy.1<br><br>This graph shows that although women have an advantage in all countries, the differences across countries can be substantial. In [https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/search?search_api_views_fulltext=Russia%20women Russia women] are 10 years older than males; while in Bhutan the gap is just half each year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>In countries with high incomes, the female advantage in longevity used to be smaller<br>Let's see how the female longevity advantage has changed in the course of time. The following chart shows the life expectancy of males and females at birth in the US between 1790 and 2014. Two distinct points stand out.<br><br>First, there is an upward trend. Men and women in America live longer than they did a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.<br><br>The second is that there is an ever-widening gap: [https://glorynote.com/%D8%B5%D8%A8%D8%BA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%B1-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AF/ صبغ الشعر بالاسود] female advantage in life expectancy used be very small, but it grew substantially in the past century.<br><br>By selecting 'Change Country by [http://dig.ccmixter.org/search?searchp=country%27 country'] in the chart, you are able to determine if these two points are also applicable to other countries with available data: Sweden, France and the UK.