Mortality in Norway, 1950

Norway
1950
Life expectancy: 71.6
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in Norway was 71.6 years in 1950: 73.3 for women and 69.9 for men, a gap of 3.3 years. 29,561 people died; 65.5% of them were 65 or older and 7.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 75-79. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
71.6
Women
73.3
Men
69.9
Life expectancy at 65
15.0
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
25.3
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
34.1
Deaths
29,561
Deaths per 1,000 people
9.1
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
154
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
109
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1950's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
Deaths per 1,000 people per year in each age group. Logarithmic scale: each gridline is ten times the one below. Hover for exact values.
WomenMen
Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
021.8229.7373.369.9
1-41.982.5373.971.0
5-90.550.9770.467.7
10-140.410.6365.663.0
15-190.631.1260.858.2
20-240.911.5755.953.5
25-290.991.4751.248.9
30-341.161.6446.444.3
35-391.512.0641.739.6
40-442.073.0137.035.0
45-493.474.5532.330.5
50-544.987.0927.826.1
55-597.4410.9023.522.0
60-6413.2516.7419.318.1
65-6921.6227.4615.414.4
70-7437.6843.5511.911.2
75-7969.5676.898.88.3
80-84113.17128.956.46.0
85-89189.88202.954.54.3
90-94285.37302.023.33.1
95-99406.97427.072.42.3
100+545.82566.161.81.8