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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 longer than men and how is this difference growing over time? We only have partial evidence and the evidence isn't sufficient to reach an unambiguous conclusion. We are aware that behavioral, biological and environmental factors [https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/?s=contribute contribute] to the fact that women live longer than men; However, we're not sure how much the influence of each factor is.<br><br>We have learned that women live longer than men, regardless of weight. However this isn't because of certain non-biological factors have changed. These 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 [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] 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. We can see that 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>The chart below shows that although there is a women's advantage everywhere, cross-country differences can be substantial. In Russia women have a longer life span than males; while in Bhutan the difference is less than half one year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>In wealthy countries, the women's advantage in longevity was smaller<br>Let's now look at how the advantage of women in longevity has changed over time. The chart below shows male and female life expectancy at the birth in the US between 1790-2014. Two distinct points stand out.<br><br>The first is that there is an upward trend. Men and women in the US have a much longer life span longer than they did 100 years ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.<br><br>There is an increasing gap: The female advantage in life expectancy used be very small, but it grew substantially in the past century.<br><br>If you select the option "Change country by country' in the chart, you can determine if these two points also apply to the other countries having available information: Sweden, France and the UK.