Why Women Are More Likely To 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. What's the reason women have a longer life span than men? Why the advantage has grown over time? There is only limited evidence and the evidence isn't sufficient to draw a definitive conclusion. While we are aware that there are behavioral, biological as well as environmental factors that all play a role in women who live longer than men, we do not know how much each one contributes.

We are aware that women live longer than men, regardless of their weight. But, this is not because of certain non-biological aspects have changed. These factors are changing. 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, ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور 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 women. As you can see, every country is above the diagonal parity line , this means that in all countries a newborn girl can expect to live for longer than a newborn boy.1

The chart above shows that, while the advantage for women exists across all countries, the difference between countries is huge. In Russia women live for ماذا يحدث بين الزوجين في الحمام بالصور 10 years longer than men. In Bhutan, the difference is only half a year.

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The female advantage in life expectancy was smaller in developed countries that it is today.
Let's examine how the female longevity advantage has changed over time. The chart below illustrates the male and female life expectancies at the birth in the US from 1790 to 2014. Two distinct features stand out.

First, there is an upward trend. Women and men living in America are living longer than they did 100 years ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.

And second, there is a widening gap: The female advantage in life expectancy used to be extremely small, but it grew substantially in the past century.

You can verify that these are applicable to other countries that have data by selecting the "Change country" option in the chart. This includes the UK, France, and Sweden.