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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. Why do women live more than men do today and why has this advantage increased over time? There isn't much evidence and we have only incomplete solutions. We know there are behavioral, biological, and environmental factors that all play a role in the longevity of women over men, we do not know how much each factor contributes.<br><br>We have learned that women live longer than men, regardless of their weight. However, this is not because of certain non-biological factors have changed. These variables are evolving. 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 [https://www.Buzznet.com/?s=reduced reduced] the long-term health burden from infectious diseases, especially for survivors, ended up raising women's [https://soundcloud.com/search/sounds?q=longevity%20disproportionately&filter.license=to_modify_commercially 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, every country is above the diagonal parity line ; this means in all countries that a baby girl can be expected to live for longer than a newborn boy.1<br><br>It is interesting to note that the advantage of women exists in all countries, cross-country differences are large. In Russia, [https://glorynote.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A9/ العاب زوجية] women live for 10 years longer than males. In Bhutan there is a difference of only half a year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>In rich countries the advantage of women in longevity was previously smaller.<br>Let's look at the way that female advantages in terms of longevity has changed over time. The chart below illustrates the gender-based and female-specific life expectancy at birth in the US from 1790 until 2014. Two areas stand out.<br><br>There is an upward trend. Both men 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 gap is getting wider: Although the advantage of women in life expectancy was once very small, it has increased substantially over time.<br><br>If you select the option "Change country in the chart, you can determine if these two points are applicable to the other countries having available data: Sweden, France and the UK.