Sex-differences in life expectancy at birth: A descriptive analysis of the contributions of age and causes of death to the gap in Norway, 1881–2011

Official mortality statistics provide ample evidence that women live longer than men. In many European countries, the sex difference in life expectancy began to increase near the end of the nineteenth century, peaking between the 1960s and the 1980s, before declining again. In Norway, there was another earlier peak before the sex gap started to converge to that in other European countries.