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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 reason why women are more likely to live longer than men? And how has this advantage gotten larger in the past? We only have a few clues and the evidence isn't sufficient to draw an unambiguous conclusion. We are aware that behavioral, biological and environmental factors all play a role in the fact that women live longer than men; but we don't know exactly how significant the impact of each one of these factors is.<br><br>We have learned that women live longer than males, regardless of weight. However this isn't due to the fact that certain non-biological aspects have changed. What are the factors that are changing? 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 [https://www.google.com/search?q=evidence&btnI=lucky 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 [http://plgrn.nl/index.php/User:Genevieve0207 علامات الحمل بولد] men and women. As you can see, all countries are above the diagonal parity line , it means that in all nations a [https://www.hometalk.com/search/posts?filter=newborn%20girl newborn girl] can expect to live longer than a newborn boy.1<br><br>This chart is interesting in that it shows that while the female advantage is present everywhere, global differences are significant. In Russia women live for 10 years longer than males. In Bhutan the gap is just half a year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>In rich countries the female advantage in longevity was not as great.<br>Let's examine how the female longevity advantage has changed over time. The next chart shows the life expectancy of males and females when they were born in the US from 1790 to 2014. Two things stand out.<br><br>First, there is an upward trend. Women and men in America have longer lives than they did a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.<br><br>Second, there's an increase in the gap between men and women: [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] female advantage in life expectancy used to be very modest however it increased dramatically during the last century.<br><br>You can confirm that these principles are also applicable to other countries that have data by clicking the "Change country" option on the chart. This includes the UK, France, and Sweden.