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. What makes women live longer than men and how | + | 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 longer than men and how does this benefit increase over time? We have only a small amount of evidence and the evidence is not sufficient to support an unambiguous conclusion. We know that biological, behavioral and environmental factors all play a role in the fact that women have longer lives than men, but we don't know exactly how much the influence of each one of these factors is.<br><br>In spite of how much number of pounds, we know that at least part of the reason why women live so much longer than men, but not previously, is to relate to the fact that certain key non-biological factors have changed. The factors changing are numerous. Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Other 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 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. As you can see, all countries are above the diagonal parity line ; it means that in all nations a newborn girl can expect to live longer than a new boy.1<br><br>This chart illustrates that, even though women enjoy an advantage in all countries, the differences across countries can be significant. In Russia women have a longer life span than men. In Bhutan the difference is less than half an hour.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>The advantage of women in life expectancy was much lower in the [https://www.gov.uk/search/all?keywords=richer%20countries richer countries] than it is now.<br>Let's see how the female longevity advantage has changed over time. The chart below illustrates the male and female life expectancy at the time of birth in the US during the period 1790 to 2014. Two distinct points stand out.<br><br>First, there is an upward trend. Men and women living in America are living longer than they were a century 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 to be very small however it increased dramatically during the last century.<br><br>By selecting 'Change Country from the chart, confirm that the two points also apply to other countries that have available data: Sweden, [https://glorynote.com/%D8%A3%D8%B6%D9%8A%D9%82-%D9%88%D8%B6%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9/ اضيق وضعية للجماع] France and the UK. |
