Status and key trends for major disease groups

Mental disorders and substance use disorders (marked in blue in figure 8) are common afflictions that affect many people even from an early age. With the exception of mortality caused by street drugs, these afflictions contribute primarily to the burden of disease through nonfatal loss of health.

From adulthood, an increasing share of the burden of disease comes from musculoskeletal disorders (brown colour in the figure), and these also primarily contribute through non-fatal loss of health.

From around age 60, the burden of disease increases as a consequence of COPD (grey), diabetes (light orange), dementia (orange), cancer (black) and cardiovascular disease (red). The burden of disease contributed by these conditions is largely due to the fact that they lead to many lost life years.

Figure 8. The burden of disease in Norway. The sum of non-fatal loss of health and lost life years. The number of years in different age groups in the population. Source: GBD2016 – healthdata.org.