Increasing life expectancy in Norway

In 2017, life expectancy in Norway was 84.3 years for women and 80.9 years for men (1).

From 2007 to 2017, life expectancy increased by 2.7 years for men, but by only 1.6 years for women. This can be explained, for example, by the different “smoking careers” of men and women.

Smoking is the lifestyle factor that claims most lives in the form of cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, COPD and other smoking-related diseases. Every fifth death before the age of 70 is attributable to smoking.