The increase in life expectancy among women has stopped. The study showed that this is due to the increasing epidemics of obesity, sedentary lifestyle and diabetes.
The increase in life expectancy among women has stalled in Europe, due to factors such as obesity and bad habits. Although women of the European Union today live, on average, 5.5 years longer than men, the difference between the sexes in this matter is reduced, since the life expectancy for men is still slowly growing. So, born in the UK between 2011 and 2016 girls are expected to have the same life expectancy as the boys.
The authors of the new report on the health and duration of life of the inhabitants of Europe, stress that the figures in the EU have changed over the years and have always been different for men and women. For example, born in England in the 1980’s girls, as expected, was to have an average life expectancy at 76.2 years. In boys, the figure was 70.2 percent. Since 1980, life expectancy of men has grown steadily every year, reaching a peak at 79.5 years in 2014. The following year it dropped to 79.2 years, and then increased again to 79.4 percent in 2016.
However, women’s life expectancy increased more sporadically and stably. Maximum at the time level it reached in 2002, amounting to 80,6, but in 2016 has increased to 83 years. Note that in Russia the difference between life expectancy of men and women over 10 years, and by this measure we are among the most disadvantaged countries of Europe. (READ MORE)