Estonia vs Norway: How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy?

Estonia
0.9522 years
in 2019
Norway
1.04 years
in 2018
Estonia rank
16th
Norway rank
13th

How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy? over time

  • Estonia
  • Norway
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How they compare

Norway currently reports 1.04 years against 0.9522 years in Estonia, a difference of 0.0878 years.

That makes Norway's figure about 1.1 times Estonia's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 60 shared years of data; in 1959 it was Estonia ahead.

Estonia ranks 16th and Norway ranks 13th of 33 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Estonia averaged higher in 2 and Norway in 5.

Head to head by decade

Decade Estonia Norway Difference Ahead
1950s 0.2815 years 0.1866 years 0.0948 years Estonia
1960s 0.3175 years 0.2723 years 0.0452 years Estonia
1970s 0.3529 years 0.449 years 0.0961 years Norway
1980s 0.3762 years 0.7388 years 0.3626 years Norway
1990s 0.3907 years 0.9431 years 0.5524 years Norway
2000s 0.5917 years 1.1 years 0.5108 years Norway
2010s 0.9105 years 1.1 years 0.191 years Norway

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy?, Estonia or Norway?
Norway, at 1.04 years against 0.9522 years in Estonia as of 2018.
What is the difference in how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy? between Estonia and Norway?
0.0878 years, with Norway ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Estonia and Norway?
60 years are reported by both, from 1959 to 2018.
How do Estonia and Norway rank globally for how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy??
Estonia ranks 16th and Norway ranks 13th of 33 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Zarulli et al. (2021) – processed by Our World in Data, published as How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy?. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator
How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy?
Unit
years
Source
Zarulli et al. (2021) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
33 places, 3,442 data points, 1751–2019
Last refreshed

The sex gap in life expectancy arises from sex differences in death rates across the lifespan. This indicator shows the number of years that a given age group's death rates have contributed to the overall sex gap in life expectancy.