Here we live the longest – VG

In Aukra in Møre og Romsdal, people eight years older than in Hasvik in Finnmark.

The new figures from the Public Health, according to NRK .

Along with Akershus municipalities in western Norway longest life expectancy. Get the best out come Aukra in Møre og Romsdal. Where life expectancy is 83.35 years.

Western Norwegian: Comedian Per Inge Torkelsen from Stavanger.

Photo: Marius Vervik VG

– It surprises me a little, says comedian Per Inge Torkelsen, and explains:

– Western Norway has gradually several major cities. And in Stavanger today it was extremely high pollution, people told time to stay indoors. I understand it more if there are farmers who live in rural areas, I can not see that it is better conditions in cities in Western Norway than in Fredrikstad and Hamar.

However, he has a theory about what differences may be due .

– It may have something with mentality our doing. That we somehow, since ancient times, is a little more relaxed, it takes a little more “lugnt” and not rush so much, says district of Rogaland.

Will growing older

the lowest life expectancy, people in Finnmark, Østfold and Hedmark. In Hasvik municipality in Finnmark life expectancy is only 75.05 years on average.

Life expectancy in Norway as a whole is over 78 years for men and over 82 for women. The number has risen by more than 30 years since 1900.

According to Public Health hanging differences in mortality associated with social differences, like how high education and income you have.

Several years difference

Highly educated men can expect to live seven years longer than those who have only primary school. For women, the difference five years.

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Health Director Bjorn Guldvog has previously stated VG that if everyone had started to live like them highly educated, could 6000-7000 deaths have been avoided.

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