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

New Zealand
0.9722 years
in 2013
Norway
1.04 years
in 2018
New Zealand rank
14th
Norway rank
13th

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

  • New Zealand
  • Norway
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How they compare

Norway currently reports 1.04 years against 0.9722 years in New Zealand, a difference of 0.0678 years.

That makes Norway's figure about 1.1 times New Zealand's.

The two have swapped places 15 times across 66 shared years of data; in 1948 it was New Zealand ahead.

New Zealand ranks 14th and Norway ranks 13th of 33 countries.

Across the 8 decades both report, New Zealand averaged higher in 6 and Norway in 2.

Head to head by decade

Decade New Zealand Norway Difference Ahead
1940s 0.2567 years 0.1188 years 0.1379 years New Zealand
1950s 0.2842 years 0.1575 years 0.1267 years New Zealand
1960s 0.4048 years 0.2723 years 0.1325 years New Zealand
1970s 0.5667 years 0.449 years 0.1176 years New Zealand
1980s 0.7581 years 0.7388 years 0.0193 years New Zealand
1990s 0.9494 years 0.9431 years 0.0063 years New Zealand
2000s 0.9893 years 1.1 years 0.1132 years Norway
2010s 0.898 years 1.12 years 0.2211 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?, New Zealand or Norway?
Norway, at 1.04 years against 0.9722 years in New Zealand 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 New Zealand and Norway?
0.0678 years, with Norway ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for New Zealand and Norway?
66 years are reported by both, from 1948 to 2013.
How do New Zealand and Norway rank globally for how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy??
New Zealand ranks 14th 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
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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.