Women Have ALWAYS Lived Longer Than Men

Men still aren’t living as long as women — and that holds true for humans’ primate cousins as well, a new study shows. In the study, researchers looked at data from six populations of humans from both modern and historical times, in different countries. The investigators found that, “in spite of the huge gains in human longevity over the past century, the male-female difference has not shrunk,” said Susan Alberts, a professor of biology at Duke University and a co-author of the new study. The researchers did find that the the amount by which women outlived men varied across populations. For instance, the largest male-female difference in life span among the populations studied was in modern-day Russia, where the gap is approximately 10 years. Much smaller differences were found in other populations such as people living in modern-day Nigeria and India. [Extending Life: 7 Ways to Live Past 100] Additionally, the scientists found that the gap for nonhuman primates was much smaller than it was for humans. In the study, the researchers looked at the mortality of six different human populations that represented “the full range of human experience.” The scientists drew information about three generally long-lived populations from a large international database called the Human Mortality Database, including the Swedish population from 1751 to 1759, the Swedish population from 2000 to 2009 and the Japanese population in 2012. The researc...
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