Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men

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. Why do women live more than men do today and why has this advantage increased over time? The evidence is sketchy and we're only able to provide limited solutions. We know that biological, behavioral and environmental factors all contribute to the fact that women live longer than men; However, we're not sure what the contribution of each of these factors is.

In spite of how much number of pounds, we know that at least part of the reason women live so much longer than men today, but not in the past, is to have to do with the fact that several important non-biological aspects have changed. These variables are evolving. Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Others 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.

Everywhere in the world women tend to live longer than men
The first chart below shows life expectancy at birth for men and تحاميل مهبلية - Going at Glorynote - women. As we can see, every country is above the diagonal parity line - it means that in all nations that a baby girl can be expected to live longer than a newborn boy.1

This graph shows that although women have an advantage in all countries, the differences across countries could be significant. In Russia women have a longer life span than males; while in Bhutan the difference is less than half an hour.

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The advantage of women in terms of life expectancy was lower in developed countries as compared to the present.
We will now examine the way that female advantages in longevity has changed with time. The next chart shows the male and female lifespans at birth in the US from 1790 to 2014. Two points stand out.

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.

Second, there's a widening gap: The female advantage in life expectancy used to be very modest but it increased substantially in the past century.

When you click on the option "Change country in the chart, you will be able to verify that these two points are applicable to other countries with available data: Sweden, France and the UK.