Women lived 7 years more than men in 2020

A total of 55,488 people died in 2020, which is 1,539 more than that in the year before, according to the Statistics Finland.

In 2020, men died, on an average, at the age of 75.3 and women at 82.1.Women died, on an average, 6.9 years older than men.

In young age-groups, a majority of deaths occurred among men but among the persons aged 83 and older, there were more deaths among women than among men.

The median age at death was 77.8 years for man and 85.5 years for woman. The median describes the middle value, that is, one-half of the deceased died at a younger or older age than the median age.

In 2020, the life expectancy at birth was 79 years for boys and 84.6 years for girls. For boys, the life expectancy decreased by 0.13 years and for girls it increased by 0.09 years compared with that in 2019. Life expectancy at birth indicates how many years a newborn would live on an average, if mortality remained at its present level.

In 2020, there were 83 infant deaths, that is, children who died at the age of less than one year. The number was the least recorded in the history of independent Finland for the second consecutive year. In 2019, the number was 96.

In 2020, infant mortality per one thousand live-born children was 1.8, which is 0.3 per mil lower than that in the previous year. The infant mortality rate of boys, 2.1 per mil, was slightly higher than that of girls, 1.5 per mil. The infant mortality rate was the least in the measuring history in 2015, when it was 1.7 per mil. In that year, the number of infant deaths was 97.