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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 much longer than men today and how has this advantage increased in the past? We only have partial evidence and the evidence is not strong enough to make an absolute conclusion. We recognize that biological, behavioral and environmental factors all contribute to the fact that women live longer than men; However, we're not sure how strong the relative contribution of each of these [https://www.biggerpockets.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=factors factors] is.<br><br>We know that women are living longer than men, regardless of their weight. But, this is not due to the fact that certain non-biological aspects have changed. These variables are evolving. 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 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. As we can see, every country is above the diagonal line of parity - which means that in every [https://www.answers.com/search?q=country country] that a baby girl can be expected to live for [https://glorynote.com/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B6%D8%A7%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9/ اوضاع الجماع] longer than a newborn boy.1<br><br>This chart illustrates that, even though women enjoy an advantage throughout the world, the differences between countries are often significant. In Russia women live 10 years more than men. In Bhutan the gap is just half a year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>In countries with high incomes, [http://www.mashuellitas.com/Wiki/TerijfPintoue اوضاع الجماع] the women's advantage in longevity was not as great.<br>Let's examine how the gender advantage in longevity has changed with time. The following chart shows male and female life expectancies at birth in the US over the period 1790-2014. Two things stand out.<br><br>First, there's an upward trend. and women in the US live a lot, much longer than they did a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.<br><br>There is a widening gap: The female advantage in terms of life expectancy used to be very modest but it increased substantially in the past century.<br><br>It is possible to verify that these points are also applicable to other countries with information by clicking on the "Change country" option on the chart. This includes the UK, France, and Sweden.