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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 makes women live more than men do today, and why have these advantages gotten bigger in the past? We only have partial evidence and the evidence isn't sufficient to draw a definitive conclusion. Although we know that there are biological, behavioral as well as environmental factors which play a significant role in women's longevity more than males, it isn't clear how much each one contributes.<br><br>In spite of the amount, we can say that a large portion of the reason women live so much longer than men today but not previously, is to have to do with the fact that certain key non-biological factors 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 [https://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=medicine 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 [https://glorynote.com/%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AA-%D8%AA%D8%B7%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%B1/ زيوت تطويل الشعر] women. As we can see, all countries are above the diagonal parity line , this means that in all countries that a baby girl can be expected to live longer than a newborn boy.1<br><br>The chart above shows that while the female advantage exists everywhere, the cross-country differences are large. In Russia, women live for 10 years longer than males. In Bhutan the difference is only half a year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>The advantage women had in life expectancy was much lower in developed countries than it is now.<br>Let's examine how the female longevity advantage has changed over time. The next chart plots the life expectancy of males and females when they were born in the US from 1790 to 2014. Two distinct points stand out.<br><br>The first is that there is an upward trend. as well as women in the US live 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>There is a widening gap: The female advantage in life expectancy used be very small however, it has increased significantly in the past century.<br><br>Using the option 'Change country by country' in the chart, confirm that the two points apply to other countries with available data: Sweden, France and the UK.