Why Women Live Longer Than Men
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| - | Everywhere in the world | + | 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 longer than men and how have these advantages gotten bigger over time? We have only a small amount of evidence and the evidence isn't sufficient to support an absolute conclusion. We know that biological, behavioral and environmental factors play a role in the fact that women live longer than men; however, we aren't sure how strong the relative contribution of each factor is.<br><br>We have learned that women are living longer than men, regardless of their weight. But this is not due to the fact that certain non-biological factors have changed. What are these new factors? 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 we can see, [https://glorynote.com/ ابر التخسيس] all countries are above the diagonal parity line - this means in all countries baby girls can expect to live longer than a newborn boy.1<br><br>This chart shows that, although women have an advantage throughout the world, the differences between countries could be significant. In Russia, women live 10 years more than men. In Bhutan the difference is only half a year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>In countries with high incomes, the advantage of women in longevity was previously smaller.<br>Let's take a look at how the female longevity advantage has changed in the course of time. The following chart shows the male and female life expectancies at the birth in the US between 1790 until 2014. Two [https://discover.hubpages.com/search?query=specific specific] points stand out.<br><br>First, there is an upward trend. Men and women in America live longer than they used to 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 quite small, but it grew substantially in the past century.<br><br>When you click on the option "Change country' on the chart, verify that these two points apply to other countries that have available information: Sweden, France and the UK. |
