Male life expectancy equal to the female in 5 years

British predicting an end to the era of "The Merry Widow" in which the life expectancy of women was much higher than that of men. It is expected that in just 5 years, this figure will be equal.

Male life expectancy

According to the UK Office for National Statistics, noted last year, the 65th anniversary of man can expect to live, on average, to 83, and their peers to 86. The difference Male life expectancy   and women are gradually reduced, and for the past 10 years, the gap has decreased from 3 to 2, 5 years. However, this decline takes place non-uniformly across the country. For example, in the county of Hampshire gap had narrowed to just 1 year old and he is already completely disappear in 2015.

But in the south of England, the difference is still some time holds, but then still disappear. According to experts of the Office of National Statistics, the reduction of differences in the duration of a woman's life   men explained by a noticeable improvement in the health of the stronger sex. For example, in 1960 men smoked more often than women, but the last half century the number of smokers among men decreased markedly.

From 1979 to 2009 the number of deaths directly caused by smoking has fallen by as much as 64%. Mortality from lung cancer, trachea and bronchi was reduced by 39% from 1991 to 2005 among men older than 49 years. The stronger sex in the UK has become much less and die from causes related to alcohol abuse, as well as cardiovascular diseases. Still, heart disease kills twice as many men than women. In addition, high levels of testosterone in men leads to the fact that they are more likely to die with different kinds incidents (including violent death).

Those born in the period from 2010 to 2012 male children can expect life expectancy to 79 years, and female - in 82 (READ MORE)

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