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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 does this benefit increase over time? The evidence is sketchy and we have only incomplete answers. Although we know that there are behavioral, biological and environmental variables that all play a role in women living longer than males, we aren't sure what percentage each factor plays in.<br><br>In spite of the amount, we can say that a large portion of the reason women live so much longer than men but not previously, has to relate to the fact that certain fundamental non-biological factors have changed. What are the factors that are changing? Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Some are more complex. 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. We can see that every country is over the line of parity diagonally. This implies that a baby girl in all countries can anticipate to live longer than her brother.<br><br>Interestingly, this chart shows that the advantage of women is present everywhere, cross-country differences are large. In Russia women live 10 years longer than males. In Bhutan, the difference is only half a year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>The advantage of women in life expectancy was smaller in countries with higher incomes than it is now.<br>Let's look at how the advantage of women in longevity has changed with time. The next chart shows the male and [https://topofblogs.com/?s=female%20lifespans female lifespans] when they were born in the US between 1790 and 2014. Two points stand out.<br><br>First, there's an upward trend: Men and women in the US live a lot, [https://directory.thefourwinds.com/why-do-women-live-longer-than-men/ العاب زوجية] much longer today than a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.<br><br>There is a widening gap: [https://glorynote.com/ العاب زوجية] The female advantage in terms of life expectancy used be extremely small but it increased substantially over the last century.<br><br>By selecting 'Change Country in the chart, you can verify that these two points are applicable to the other countries with available data: Sweden, France and the UK.