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. What's the reason women live longer than men? And how the advantage has grown over time? The evidence is limited and we're left with only partial answers. We recognize that biological, behavioral and environmental factors all contribute to the fact that women have longer life spans than men, however, we do not know how significant the impact to each of these variables is.<br><br>It is known that women are living longer than men, regardless of weight. However this is not due to the fact that certain biological factors have changed. What are these factors that have changed? Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Others are more complicated. 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://www.paramuspost.com/search.php?query=medicine&type=all&mode=search&results=25 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 all countries are 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, [https://pixabay.com/images/search/country-specific%20differences/ country-specific differences] are huge. In Russia women are 10 years older than men; in Bhutan the gap is less than half a year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>The advantage of women in life expectancy was smaller in the richer countries than it is now.<br>Let's now look at how the gender advantage in longevity has changed over time. The chart below shows men and [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] women's life expectancies at the birth in the US from 1790 until 2014. Two distinct features stand out.<br><br>The first is that there is an upward trend. Men and women in America have longer lives than they used to a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.<br><br>The gap is widening: While the advantage of women in life expectancy used to be quite small but it has risen significantly over time.<br><br>When you click on the option "Change country from the chart, verify that these two points also apply to other countries that have available information: Sweden, France and the UK. |
