Norway vs Sweden: How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy?
Norway
1.04 years
in 2018
Sweden
1.07 years
in 2019
Norway rank
13th
Sweden rank
10th
How do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy? over time
- Norway
- Sweden
How they compare
Sweden currently reports 1.07 years against 1.04 years in Norway, a difference of 0.03 years.
The two have swapped places 49 times across 173 shared years of data; in 1846 it was Norway ahead.
Norway ranks 13th and Sweden ranks 10th of 33 countries.
Across the 18 decades both report, Norway averaged higher in 13 and Sweden in 5.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Norway | Sweden | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1840s | 0.0384 years | 0.0331 years | 0.0053 years | Norway |
| 1850s | 0.077 years | 0.0351 years | 0.0418 years | Norway |
| 1860s | 0.0865 years | 0.0627 years | 0.0238 years | Norway |
| 1870s | 0.0706 years | 0.0807 years | 0.01 years | Sweden |
| 1880s | 0.0863 years | 0.0979 years | 0.0116 years | Sweden |
| 1890s | 0.1021 years | 0.0912 years | 0.0109 years | Norway |
| 1900s | 0.1028 years | 0.0887 years | 0.0141 years | Norway |
| 1910s | 0.1179 years | 0.0833 years | 0.0346 years | Norway |
| 1920s | 0.1226 years | 0.079 years | 0.0437 years | Norway |
| 1930s | 0.1383 years | 0.0691 years | 0.0692 years | Norway |
| 1940s | 0.1475 years | 0.0889 years | 0.0586 years | Norway |
| 1950s | 0.1575 years | 0.1405 years | 0.017 years | Norway |
| 1960s | 0.2723 years | 0.2704 years | 0.0018 years | Norway |
| 1970s | 0.449 years | 0.5666 years | 0.1176 years | Sweden |
| 1980s | 0.7388 years | 0.824 years | 0.0852 years | Sweden |
| 1990s | 0.9431 years | 1 years | 0.0581 years | Sweden |
| 2000s | 1.1 years | 1.05 years | 0.0533 years | Norway |
| 2010s | 1.1 years | 1.04 years | 0.0599 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?, Norway or Sweden?
- Sweden, at 1.07 years against 1.04 years in Norway as of 2019.
- What is the difference in how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy? between Norway and Sweden?
- 0.03 years, with Sweden ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Norway and Sweden?
- 173 years are reported by both, from 1846 to 2018.
- How do Norway and Sweden rank globally for how do death rates in each age group contribute to the overall sex gap in life expectancy??
- Norway ranks 13th and Sweden ranks 10th 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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About this data
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.