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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 more than men do today and how has this advantage increased over time? We only have a few clues and the evidence is not sufficient to reach an absolute conclusion. We are aware that behavioral, biological and environmental factors play a role in the fact that women have longer lives than men, however, we do not know how much the influence of each factor is.<br><br>Independently of the exact number of pounds, we know that a large portion of the reason why women live longer than men do today, but not previously, is to have to do with the fact that several significant non-biological elements have changed. The factors changing are numerous. Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Others 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, [https://glorynote.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A9/ العاب زوجية] 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, all countries are above the diagonal parity line , this means that in all countries that a baby girl can be expected to live for longer than a newborn boy.1<br><br>The chart below shows that even though women enjoy an advantage across all countries, differences between countries could be significant. In Russia, women live for 10 years longer than men. 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 see how the female longevity advantage has changed over time. The chart below illustrates the men and women's life expectancies when they were born in the US during the period 1790-2014. Two distinct points stand out.<br><br>The first is that there is an upward trend. Both genders living in America are living longer than they used to 100 years ago. This is in line with [https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/?s=historical%20increases historical increases] in life expectancy everywhere in the world.<br><br>Second, there's an increase in the gap between men and women: female advantage in terms of life expectancy used be very modest however, it has increased significantly during the last century.<br><br>It is possible to verify that these are applicable to other countries that have data by clicking the "Change country" option in the chart. This includes the UK, France, and Sweden.