According to a Eurostat ranking, Spanish women have the highest life expectancy in the entire European Union.

This classification is led by six autonomous communities of Spain: the Madrid’s community (88.2 years), the Foral Community of Navarra(87.6 years), Castile and León (87.5 years), Cantabria (87.1 years), Galicia and Basque Country (both 87 years old).

This is due, according to the head of Geriatrics at the University Hospital of Navarra, to “our Mediterranean dietour interpersonal and family relationships“.

“It is a combination of endogenous and exogenous factors. Endogenous would be genetics, what you inherit from your parents, and exogenous would be what you do and what surrounds you,” says Manell Esteller, director of the Josep Carreras Institute, who is studying the case. of Maria Branyasthe 116-year-old Catalan who is currently the oldest woman in the world.

Esteller affirms that our purchasing and social power also influences. “Neighborhoods with good socio-sanitary conditions in a big city They can have a difference of 10 years compared to more depressed areas,” says the socio-health researcher.

Similar factors that also seem to benefit the French women of Rhône-Alpes or the Italians of Trentwhere the life expectancy of its women is over 86 and a half years.