Did most covid-deaths happen past life expectancy?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people believed that most of the people who died were so old that, according to life expectancy, they should have died already. In other words, people died "past life expectancy", we were told, and therefore the virus was not much to worry about. But is that really true?
We often hear about life expectancy in different countries, and Norway is one of the countries with the highest life expectancy. Indeed, in 2020, when the pandemic started, life expectancy was 81.48 years for men and 84.89 years for women. For both genders combined, life expectancy in Norway was 83.20 years according to the Statistics Norway (SSB).
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