Why is there a higher death rate in males than females?

Males have worse health because they usually eat more than females or they have so many fights and wars!

Answer:

There are many factors affecting the sex based differences in male and female lifespans.

In some countries the proportion of men in the general population increases with age. Generally this is due to devaluing of female lives and a withholding of medical treatment As the womem age.

In Europe and North America the bias was towards men having shorter lifespans. This was generally felt to be due to male involvement with hazardous behavior (although the impact of maternal death due to child delivery was not accounted for by this theory). However as women began to take over "man's work" and higher positions in corporation the increased stress and lifestyle mpacts tendied to increase the problems with heart attacks and strokes in that population.