Why Women Live Longer Than Men
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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. | + | 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 so longer than men and why have these advantages gotten bigger over time? We have only a small amount of [https://ajt-ventures.com/?s=evidence evidence] and the evidence is not sufficient to reach an informed conclusion. We know that behavioral, biological and environmental factors play a role in the fact that women have longer lives than men, However, we're not sure what the contribution of each factor is.<br><br>In spite of the precise amount, we can say that at a minimum, the reason why women live so much longer than men today however not as in the past, has to relate to the fact that certain important non-biological aspects have changed. These factors are changing. Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Some are more complex. For [https://rchain.io/wiki/User_talk:MadelineHatten كيفية ممارسة العلاقة الزوجية فى الاسلام] 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 diagonal line of parity. This implies that a baby girl from every country could be expected to live for longer than her younger brother.<br><br>It is interesting to note that, while the advantage for women exists in all countries, country-specific differences are huge. In Russia women have a longer life span than men, while in Bhutan the gap is less than half one year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>The advantage women had in life expectancy was smaller in rich countries as compared to the present.<br>Let's look at how female longevity advantage has changed in the course of time. The chart below illustrates the male and female life expectancy at the time of birth in the US during the period 1790 until 2014. Two aspects stand out.<br><br>First, there is an upward trend. Women and men in America live longer than they did 100 years ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.<br><br>The second is that there is an increase in the gap between men and women: female advantage in life expectancy used be very small, but it grew substantially over the course of the last century.<br><br>Using the option 'Change country in the chart, verify that these two points are also applicable to the other countries with available data: [https://glorynote.com/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84/ كيفية ممارسة العلاقة الزوجية فى الاسلام] Sweden, France and the UK. |
