Women live longer than men, but the younger generation has halved the gap, a new study reveals. The study from the University of Jyväskylä in Finland found that women live longer than men as a result of both biological and lifestyle factors.
In the 1970s, women’s life expectancy in Finland was almost ten years higher than men’s. Now, Finnish women live on average five years longer than men. Dr. Anna Kankaanpää, a doctoral researcher at the Gerontology Research Center and the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, said: “We found that men are biologically older than women of the same chronological age, and the difference is considerably larger in older participants.”
