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 | + | 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 have these advantages gotten bigger in the past? We have only a small amount of evidence and the evidence isn't strong enough to make an absolute conclusion. We are aware that behavioral, biological and environmental factors all play a role in the fact that women live longer than men; however, we aren't sure how much the influence of each of these factors is.<br><br>In spite of the precise weight, we know that at least part of the reason why women live longer than men but not previously, has to relate to the fact that some important non-biological aspects have changed. The factors changing are numerous. Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Some are more complex. 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. We can see that every country is over the line of parity diagonally. This means that a newborn girl from any country can expect to live longer than her older brother.<br><br>This chart is interesting in that it shows that although the female advantage exists across all countries, the global differences are significant. In Russia, women live 10 years longer than males. In Bhutan the gap is less than half a calendar year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>The advantage women had in life expectancy was much lower in countries with higher incomes as compared to the present.<br>Let's take a look at how the female longevity advantage has changed over time. The following chart shows the male and female life expectancy at the time of birth in the US during the period 1790 until 2014. Two [https://discover.hubpages.com/search?query=distinct distinct] points stand out.<br><br>The first is that there is an upward trend. Women and men 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>There is an increase in the gap between men and women: female advantage in life expectancy used to be very modest, كيفية مم[https://www.dictionary.com/browse/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%A9 ارسة] العلاقة الزوجية فى الاسلام ([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/ click here!]) but it grew substantially in the past century.<br><br>You can check if the points you've listed are applicable to other countries with data by clicking the "Change country" option on the chart. This includes the UK, France, and Sweden. |
