Women generally live about six years longer than men. Evidence suggests that boys are the weaker sex at birth, which means that more die in infancy. Also women do not have as much heart disease as men. In terms of lifestyle, men smoke more than women and thus more die are smoking-related diseases. They drink more and are more aggressive in behavior particularly when driving cars so they generally have more dangerous occupations such as building work. Historically women died in childbirth and men in wars. Hence nuns and philosophers often lives to great ages. Now childbearing is less risky and there are fewer wars. The country with the highest life expectancy is Japan where the average age for men is 76 and for women 82.
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