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Weekly figures will be published every tuesday. See StatBank table 07995.

Monthly figures was published May 19th and will be updated first Tuesday after 15th every month. See StatBank tables 12982 and 12983.

Updated

11 March 2021

Next update

11 March 2025

81.48

years is the expectancy for men

DeathsPublished 11 March 2021
	Year
	1990	2000	2010	2020
Deaths, total
Females	22 155	22 337	21 472	20 568
Males	23 866	21 665	20 027	20 043
Deaths under 1 year of age
Girls	167	95	74	35
Boys	252	130	97	57
Life expectancy at birth
Females	79.81	81.38	83.15	84.89
Males	73.44	75.96	78.85	81.48

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Table 1
Deaths and death rates

Deaths and death rates
	Deaths			Deaths under 1 year of age			Deaths per 1 000 mean population			Infant mortality
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
2020	40 611	20 043	20 568	92	57	35	7.5	7.4	7.7	1.7	2.1	1.3

Table 2
Age-specific death rates for males and females

Age-specific death rates for males and females
	2020
	Deaths per 100 000 mean population
	Males	Females
0-4 years	48	31
5-9 years	4	7
10-14 years	7	13
15-19 years	41	16
20-24 years	48	19
25-29 years	65	27
30-34 years	66	29
35-39 years	78	47
40-44 years	114	65
45-49 years	165	117
50-54 years	236	176
55-59 years	421	262
60-64 years	673	459
65-69 years	1 173	751
70-74 years	1 938	1 385
75-79 years	3 257	2 237
80-84 years	6 147	4 461
85-89 years	12 080	8 689
90 years or older	24 087	20 969

Table 3
Life expectancy - remaining years for males and females at selected ages.

Life expectancy - remaining years for males and females at selected ages.
	0 years	1 year	5 years	10 years	20 years	30 years	40 years	50 years	60 years	70 years	80 years
Males
2020	81.48	80.65	76.68	71.70	61.85	52.17	42.51	33.03	23.94	15.70	8.74
Females
2020	84.89	84.00	80.03	75.05	65.15	55.29	45.48	35.84	26.51	17.81	10.25

Table 4
Perinatal and infant mortality

Perinatal and infant mortality
	Late fetal deaths (deaths per 1 000 births)	Perinatal mortality (deaths per 1 000 births)	Under 24 hours (deaths per 1 000 live births)	Under 1 week (deaths per 1 000 live births)	Under 4 week (deaths per 1 000 live births)	4 weeks - under 1 year (deaths per 1 000 live births)	Under 1 year, total (Under 1 year, total)
2020	1.6	2.5	0.4	0.9	1.3	0.4	1.7

Table 5
Life tables

Life tables
	2020
	Survivors (per 100 000) at age x, lx			Death at age x to x+1, dx			Life expectancy - remaining years at age x, ex			Probability of death at age x (per 1 000) (Ungraduated), qx
	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females	Both sexes	Males	Females
0 years	100 000	100 000	100 000	170	206	133	83.20	81.48	84.89	1.704	2.059	1.331
1 year	99 830	99 794	99 867	16	17	15	82.34	80.65	84.00	0.162	0.175	0.148
2 years	99 813	99 777	99 852	14	20	7	81.36	79.66	83.02	0.140	0.204	0.072
3 years	99 799	99 756	99 845	3	3	3	80.37	78.68	82.02	0.034	0.033	0.035
4 years	99 796	99 753	99 841	5	6	3	79.37	77.68	81.02	0.049	0.064	0.034
5 years	99 791	99 747	99 838	3	3	3	78.37	76.68	80.03	0.033	0.032	0.034
6 years	99 788	99 743	99 835	8	10	7	77.38	75.69	79.03	0.082	0.096	0.067
7 years	99 780	99 734	99 828	11	9	13	76.38	74.69	78.04	0.112	0.094	0.131
8 years	99 768	99 725	99 815	2	0	3	75.39	73.70	77.05	0.016	0.000	0.032
9 years	99 767	99 725	99 812	3	0	6	74.39	72.70	76.05	0.031	0.000	0.063
10 years	99 764	99 725	99 805	6	0	12	73.39	71.70	75.05	0.060	0.000	0.124
11 years	99 758	99 725	99 793	6	0	12	72.40	70.70	74.06	0.060	0.000	0.124
12 years	99 752	99 725	99 781	8	6	9	71.40	69.70	73.07	0.077	0.060	0.095
13 years	99 744	99 719	99 771	17	15	19	70.41	68.70	72.08	0.170	0.151	0.191
14 years	99 727	99 703	99 752	12	15	10	69.42	67.72	71.09	0.125	0.153	0.096
15 years	99 715	99 688	99 743	17	18	16	68.43	66.73	70.10	0.174	0.185	0.162
16 years	99 697	99 670	99 726	25	37	13	67.44	65.74	69.11	0.253	0.369	0.130
17 years	99 672	99 633	99 713	37	44	29	66.46	64.76	68.12	0.367	0.437	0.294
18 years	99 636	99 589	99 684	38	59	16	65.48	63.79	67.14	0.381	0.589	0.163
19 years	99 598	99 531	99 668	26	44	6	64.51	62.83	66.15	0.261	0.445	0.063
20 years	99 572	99 487	99 662	39	57	19	63.52	61.85	65.15	0.390	0.577	0.187
21 years	99 533	99 429	99 643	40	58	22	62.55	60.89	64.17	0.406	0.579	0.218
22 years	99 492	99 371	99 621	25	32	18	61.57	59.93	63.18	0.253	0.317	0.185
23 years	99 467	99 340	99 603	35	47	21	60.59	58.94	62.19	0.348	0.476	0.210
24 years	99 433	99 293	99 582	30	44	15	59.61	57.97	61.20	0.299	0.441	0.147
25 years	99 403	99 249	99 567	52	71	32	58.63	57.00	60.21	0.522	0.713	0.320
26 years	99 351	99 178	99 535	55	89	20	57.66	56.04	59.23	0.556	0.895	0.200
27 years	99 296	99 089	99 515	36	47	25	56.69	55.09	58.24	0.367	0.477	0.251
28 years	99 259	99 042	99 490	38	54	22	55.71	54.11	57.26	0.384	0.543	0.217
29 years	99 221	98 988	99 469	49	60	37	54.73	53.14	56.27	0.492	0.611	0.370
30 years	99 172	98 928	99 432	36	50	21	53.76	52.17	55.29	0.361	0.507	0.210
31 years	99 137	98 878	99 411	48	63	32	52.78	51.20	54.30	0.480	0.638	0.317
32 years	99 089	98 815	99 380	47	57	37	51.80	50.23	53.32	0.476	0.572	0.377
33 years	99 042	98 758	99 342	52	73	30	50.83	49.26	52.34	0.527	0.740	0.304
34 years	98 990	98 685	99 312	54	84	22	49.85	48.30	51.36	0.545	0.849	0.225
35 years	98 936	98 601	99 290	51	61	39	48.88	47.34	50.37	0.512	0.620	0.398
36 years	98 885	98 540	99 250	58	83	31	47.91	46.37	49.39	0.586	0.840	0.317
37 years	98 827	98 457	99 219	58	72	43	46.93	45.41	48.40	0.586	0.729	0.433
38 years	98 769	98 386	99 176	81	94	66	45.96	44.44	47.42	0.816	0.960	0.665
39 years	98 688	98 291	99 110	64	76	52	45.00	43.48	46.45	0.650	0.771	0.523
40 years	98 624	98 216	99 058	71	89	52	44.03	42.51	45.48	0.722	0.906	0.526
41 years	98 553	98 126	99 006	100	128	70	43.06	41.55	44.50	1.017	1.306	0.709
42 years	98 453	97 998	98 936	95	100	89	42.10	40.61	43.53	0.962	1.020	0.900
43 years	98 358	97 898	98 847	102	139	62	41.14	39.65	42.57	1.036	1.419	0.630
44 years	98 256	97 759	98 784	77	103	49	40.18	38.70	41.60	0.784	1.055	0.498
45 years	98 179	97 656	98 735	92	113	70	39.21	37.74	40.62	0.937	1.160	0.705
46 years	98 087	97 543	98 666	122	141	101	38.25	36.79	39.65	1.242	1.448	1.026
47 years	97 965	97 402	98 564	141	174	105	37.30	35.84	38.69	1.434	1.782	1.067
48 years	97 825	97 228	98 459	160	166	153	36.35	34.90	37.73	1.636	1.712	1.556
49 years	97 665	97 062	98 306	175	205	143	35.41	33.96	36.79	1.792	2.112	1.456
50 years	97 490	96 857	98 163	163	181	143	34.47	33.03	35.84	1.668	1.873	1.452
51 years	97 327	96 675	98 020	171	210	129	33.53	32.09	34.89	1.753	2.174	1.313
52 years	97 157	96 465	97 892	215	284	142	32.59	31.16	33.94	2.216	2.949	1.448
53 years	96 941	96 181	97 750	213	211	216	31.66	30.25	32.98	2.201	2.198	2.205
54 years	96 728	95 969	97 534	244	251	235	30.73	29.32	32.06	2.518	2.617	2.413
55 years	96 484	95 718	97 299	267	300	230	29.80	28.39	31.13	2.762	3.138	2.365
56 years	96 218	95 418	97 069	327	408	241	28.88	27.48	30.21	3.401	4.276	2.487
57 years	95 891	95 010	96 827	335	411	255	27.98	26.60	29.28	3.495	4.323	2.633
58 years	95 556	94 599	96 573	335	410	255	27.08	25.71	28.36	3.502	4.333	2.636
59 years	95 221	94 189	96 318	384	474	288	26.17	24.82	27.43	4.031	5.031	2.993
60 years	94 837	93 715	96 030	450	551	343	25.27	23.94	26.51	4.745	5.880	3.567
61 years	94 387	93 164	95 687	450	523	373	24.39	23.08	25.60	4.768	5.611	3.901
62 years	93 937	92 642	95 314	536	590	480	23.51	22.21	24.70	5.707	6.368	5.035
63 years	93 401	92 052	94 834	606	727	481	22.64	21.35	23.82	6.489	7.896	5.070
64 years	92 795	91 325	94 353	615	720	505	21.78	20.51	22.94	6.622	7.888	5.352
65 years	92 180	90 604	93 848	681	751	608	20.93	19.67	22.06	7.383	8.288	6.482
66 years	91 500	89 854	93 240	814	1 005	619	20.08	18.83	21.20	8.897	11.187	6.636
67 years	90 686	88 848	92 621	903	1 123	677	19.25	18.04	20.34	9.959	12.640	7.310
68 years	89 783	87 725	91 944	930	1 120	731	18.44	17.27	19.49	10.358	12.769	7.955
69 years	88 853	86 605	91 213	1 020	1 189	842	17.63	16.48	18.64	11.474	13.729	9.231
70 years	87 833	85 416	90 371	1 122	1 337	898	16.83	15.70	17.81	12.770	15.648	9.933
71 years	86 711	84 080	89 473	1 259	1 398	1 114	16.04	14.95	16.98	14.522	16.632	12.446
72 years	85 452	82 681	88 360	1 398	1 537	1 253	15.27	14.19	16.19	16.358	18.592	14.182
73 years	84 054	81 144	87 106	1 530	1 697	1 360	14.51	13.45	15.42	18.207	20.907	15.618
74 years	82 524	79 447	85 746	1 687	1 949	1 421	13.77	12.73	14.65	20.442	24.536	16.567
75 years	80 837	77 498	84 325	1 780	2 149	1 406	13.05	12.03	13.89	22.016	27.730	16.675
76 years	79 057	75 349	82 919	1 870	2 151	1 585	12.33	11.36	13.12	23.651	28.554	19.111
77 years	77 188	73 198	81 335	2 105	2 266	1 947	11.62	10.68	12.36	27.273	30.961	23.939
78 years	75 082	70 931	79 387	2 315	2 559	2 083	10.93	10.01	11.66	30.835	36.073	26.242
79 years	72 767	68 373	77 304	2 466	2 814	2 141	10.26	9.36	10.96	33.893	41.158	27.700
80 years	70 301	65 559	75 163	2 871	3 121	2 648	9.61	8.74	10.25	40.837	47.602	35.226
81 years	67 430	62 438	72 515	2 849	3 244	2 495	8.99	8.16	9.61	42.252	51.960	34.403
82 years	64 581	59 194	70 020	3 349	3 656	3 086	8.37	7.58	8.93	51.857	61.761	44.070
83 years	61 232	55 538	66 935	3 524	3 698	3 394	7.80	7.04	8.32	57.549	66.589	50.708
84 years	57 708	51 840	63 541	3 872	4 076	3 733	7.25	6.51	7.74	67.101	78.630	58.747
85 years	53 836	47 763	59 808	4 157	4 411	3 990	6.73	6.02	7.19	77.218	92.359	66.721
86 years	49 679	43 352	55 817	3 933	4 357	3 622	6.25	5.58	6.67	79.175	100.496	64.897
87 years	45 745	38 995	52 195	4 270	4 372	4 246	5.75	5.15	6.10	93.348	112.117	81.356
88 years	41 475	34 623	47 948	4 503	4 460	4 625	5.29	4.74	5.60	108.576	128.829	96.449
89 years	36 972	30 163	43 324	4 737	4 576	4 976	4.87	4.36	5.14	128.116	151.725	114.857
90 years	32 235	25 586	38 348	4 493	4 170	4 860	4.51	4.06	4.74	139.366	162.987	126.731
91 years	27 743	21 416	33 488	4 206	3 836	4 617	4.16	3.75	4.36	151.606	179.113	137.871
92 years	23 537	17 580	28 871	4 120	3 592	4 660	3.82	3.46	3.98	175.049	204.320	161.417
93 years	19 417	13 988	24 211	3 759	3 119	4 380	3.52	3.22	3.64	193.602	222.943	180.891
94 years	15 658	10 870	19 831	3 402	2 557	4 161	3.24	3.00	3.34	217.244	235.269	209.809
95 years	12 256	8 312	15 670	2 866	2 037	3 598	3.01	2.76	3.09	233.833	245.015	229.592
96 years	9 390	6 276	12 073	2 401	1 851	2 921	2.77	2.50	2.86	255.681	294.884	241.967
97 years	6 989	4 425	9 151	2 072	1 505	2 583	2.55	2.34	2.62	296.508	340.168	282.213
98 years	4 917	2 920	6 569	1 519	1 009	1 965	2.41	2.28	2.45	308.996	345.695	299.071
99 years	3 398	1 910	4 604	1 114	670	1 485	2.27	2.22	2.29	327.849	350.626	322.506
100 years	2 284	1 241	3 119	859	453	1 182	2.13	2.15	2.14	376.308	364.807	378.927
101 years	1 424	788	1 937	476	276	640	2.12	2.10	2.13	334.250	350.383	330.566
102 years	948	512	1 297	344	173	475	1.94	1.97	1.94	362.872	338.862	366.203
103 years	604	338	822	234	96	329	1.75	1.72	1.77	387.494	283.469	400.171
104 years	370	243	493	135	134	161	1.55	1.20	1.62	365.994	550.671	327.020
105 years	235	109	332	82	47	109	1.15	1.06	1.17	351.071	435.282	329.680
106 years	152	62	222	152	62	222	0.50	0.50	0.50	1 000.000	1 000.000	1 000.000

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The statistics cover the number of deaths during a calendar year. Death, death rates, infant mortality and expectation of life can be indications of the general health state of the population.

Definitions

Definitions of the main concepts and variables

Mortality rates
The frequency of deaths in the population. In most cases the rate is multiplied by 1 000 so that it can be interpreted as the number of deaths per 1 000 persons.

Infant mortality
Number of deaths per 1 000 live births among children under the age of one.

Probability of death
Probability of death for a man/woman at age x is the probability that he/she will die before he/she reaches the age of x + 1. Probability of death is estimated for each age level separately for men and women and is used inter alia to estimate life expectancy. Probability of death is not the same as age-specific mortality rates.

Life expectancy - remaining lifetime
Life expectancy or mean lifetime is the number of years a new-born can expect to live under current mortality conditions (period mortality). Life expectancy is estimated on the basis of the age-specific mortality probabilities in the period. Expectation of life is estimated for the various age levels.

Calculation method - life expectancy and mortality tables

The mortality table is based on the probability of dying between two age levels (number of years). The probability is indicated with the symbol

in which x stands for age x years.

The point of departure is a selected cohort of 100 000 persons of the same sex (l ₀ =100 000), in which survivors at age x are

The number of persons who die are estimated for each age level.

The mathematical formula is as follows:

in which

is the probability that a person aged x-1 will be alive one year later.

The number of deceased persons by their exact age x to x+1 year in the selected cohort are given as:

To calculate the expectation of life at age x we need the auxiliary aggregates contemporary survivors and total remaining lifetime.

The contemporary survivors of age x,

are the average number of persons of age x. If the deaths are assumed to fall evenly throughout the year, contemporary survivors are:

Total remaining lifetime at age x is the number of years contemporary survivor xers in the cohort have to live:

in which

is equal to the highest age.

Expectation of life at age x is equal to the total of remaining years of life at age x, divided by the number of survivors at age x.

Age in the published tables is age in number of years at the time of death.

Residence

Sex

Standard classifications

Administrative information

Name and topic: Name: Deaths
Topic: Population

Next release: 11 March 2025

Responsible division: Division for Population Statistics

Regional level: Municipality.

Frequency and timeliness: Annual final figures, quarterly preliminary figures.

International reporting: FN. Eurostat.

Microdata: Files at the individual level which are processed and stored long-term.

Background

Background and purpose

The statistics show the number of deaths over the course of one year. Mortality rates, infant mortality and life expectancy can indicate the general health of the population.

Statistics Norway has national figures dating back to 1735 and county figures from around 1950.

Users and applications: Public administration, politicians, the media, lawyers, the insurance industry and researchers who study demographics and living standards.

Equal treatment of users: Not relevant

Coherence with other statistics

Death statistics are included in the population accounts as one of the components for understanding the changes in the population.

From 1 January 2000 the same definition will mainly be used in the quarterly figures vis-à-vis the final statistics. The main difference is that in the final death statistics there is a two-month wait before the death reports are taken out, while in the quarterly figures there is only a one-month wait. From 1 January 2002 there is one-month wait before the death report are taken out, such as the quarterly figures.

Another source of death statistics is the cause of death register at the Division for Health Statistics.

The number of deaths in causes of death statistics does not completely coincide with the number of deaths in Statistics Norway’s population statistics. The difference used to be more extensive due to different routines regarding delayed reporting.

The differences in the number of deaths in recent years are due to the fact that population statistics are not including civilian death certificates received after the end of January the following year, while causes of deaths statistics includes medical death certificates received until just before publishing the results, for example for the 2010 statistics until the end of September 2011. On the other hand population statistics are including deaths that occurred in previous years, with a change in birth year and death year for the deceased so that age at death will be correct.

The different routines have, for the last twenty years, resulted in a yearly difference in the number of deaths by plus/minus 100 with a few exceptions. Please note that even for a statistical year with an equal number of deaths the two statistics can include a different group of (population of) deaths, for instance regarding age, gender and so on for approximately 200 persons. Nevertheless, over a time span of several statistical years the populations with be approximately identical.

Legal authority: Statistics Act §§ 2-1, 2-2, 3-2

EEA reference: Not relevant

Production

Population

The statistics cover only persons registered as living in Norway at the time of their death, without regard to whether the death took place in Norway or abroad.

The statistics for 1999 mainly cover deaths that actually occurred in 1999. Deaths from all previous years are counted in the 1999 figures if the report was made between 1 March 1999 and 29 February 2000, i.e. too late to be included in the 1998 or earlier annual statistics.

From 1985 to 1998 the statistics covered deaths that actually had happened during the year and in addition only deaths from the preceding year which were recorded too late to be included in the statistics.

From 2002 the statistics cover deaths from all previous years if the report was made between 1 March and 31 January 2003, i.e. too late to be included in the 2001 or earlier annual statistics.

Data sources and sampling

Death statistics are based on population register data. The figures from 1995 and later are based on the Central Population Register (DSF) at the Directorate of Taxes, while the figures for 1968-1994 are taken from its predecessor, the National Population Register (DSP). The register was built up from 1964 to 1966 on the basis of the 1960 census, at the same time as the 11-digit national identity number was introduced as identification. The Office of the National Registrar, which administrates the register, was transferred in 1991 from Statistics Norway to the Directorate of Taxes.

Since 1946 each municipality has had a local population registry that registers all residents in the municipality, pursuant to the Population Registration Act and its regulations. The population registries receive reports of births, deaths, marriages, divorces, migration etc. from various sources.

Deaths are reported by the probate court or sheriff to the population registry in the deceased person's municipality of residence. Reports of deaths abroad of persons who were residents of Norway are received via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Norwegian Maritime Directorate.

Updating of the Central Population Register is done in part by the local population registries, which are connected to the DSF via terminals, and in part by the Directorate of Taxes. The basis of the statistics on changes in the population is electronic copies to Statistics Norway of all such register updates. The reports are also used to update a separate Statistics Norway population database kept for statistical purposes, which forms the basis for the statistics on the composition of the population.

Data on basic statistical units are taken from the address portion of the Ground Property, Address and Building Register (GAB) owned by the Norwegian Mapping Authority.

Not relevant.

Collection of data, editing and estimations

Not relevant.

In addition to checks made by the DSF, Statistics Norway performs checks for statistical purposes. For further details of the controls that are done, see 3.7.3. in the report:

Dokumentasjon av BESYS-befolkningsstatistikksystemet. Befolkningsendringer i 1998 og befolkningsbasen (BEBAS) 1. januar 2000. Anne Sofie Brørs, Kirsten Dybendal, Aslaug Hurlen Foss og Trude Jakobsen, Notat 2000/24 Statistics Norway. ISSN 0806-3745 (in Norwegian only)

The statistics counts deaths by sex, age, marital status and citizenship.

Seasonal adjustment: Not relevant

Confidentiality: If a table consists zero, one or two units and disclosing these units can lead to identification of individuals, the figure is rounded up or left empty.

Comparability over time and space

In 1999 the scope of which deaths are included was changed, leading to an 0.3 per cent increase in the number of deaths compared with the previous definition.

The method for calculating life expectancy was revised in 1998. The difference with the old method of calculation was a couple of hundredths.

Accuracy and reliability

Sources of error and uncertainty

Not relevant.

Revision: Not relevant

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