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's the reason why women | + | 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 why women have a longer life span than men? What is the reason is this difference growing over time? The evidence is limited and we're only able to provide incomplete solutions. We are aware that behavioral, biological and environmental factors contribute to the fact that women have longer life spans than men, However, we're not sure how significant the impact to each of these variables is.<br><br>In spite of how much weight, we know that at least a portion of the reason why women live longer than men do today but not previously, has to have to do with the fact that some fundamental non-biological factors have changed. What are these changing factors? Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Some are more complex. For example, العاب زوجية; [https://glorynote.com/ just click the next article], 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 above the diagonal parity line ; this means that in all countries that a baby girl can be [https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=expected&gs_l=news expected] to live for longer than a new boy.1<br><br>Interestingly, this chart shows that, while the advantage for women exists across all countries, the cross-country differences are large. In Russia women live for 10 years longer than males. In Bhutan the gap is just half a year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>The advantage women had in life expectancy was less in rich countries than it is today.<br>Let's now look at how the female advantage in terms of longevity has changed over time. The next chart shows male and female life expectancy when they were born in the US over the period 1790-2014. Two distinct features stand out.<br><br>There is an upward trend. Both men as well as women in the US have a much longer life span longer than they did a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.<br><br>Second, the gap is increasing: While the female advantage in life expectancy used to be extremely small, it has increased substantially over time.<br><br>You can confirm that these are [https://www.bbc.co.uk/search/?q=applicable applicable] to other countries that have data by selecting the "Change country" option on the chart. This includes the UK, France, and Sweden. |
