Table 1.

Potential gains in life expectancy in Denmark if inequality is reduced (%) to Swedish levels in 2014 by cause of death

Sex		Cause of death category and mortality above age 85	Reduce gap with Sweden in CoV (%)	Reduction in life expectancy gap with Sweden (%)	Potential Gains in life expectancy (years)
Females	1	Smoking-related cancer	18%	25%	0.35
	2	Non-Smoking related cancer	13%	16%	0.22
	3	Cardiovascular	10%	15%	0.21
	4	Respiratory-Infectious	2%	2%	0.03
	5	Respiratory-Non-infectious	7%	17%	0.23
	6	External	−26%a	−11%b	−0.15
	7	Other	71%	40%	0.55
		Above age 85	5%	−3%b	−0.05
Males	1	Smoking-related cancer	15%	26%	0.47
	2	Non-Smoking related cancer	7%	10%	0.19
	3	Cardiovascular	10%	19%	0.33
	4	Respiratory-Infectious	1%	3%	0.05
	5	Respiratory-Non-infectious	5%	7%	0.12
	6	External	−26%a	−11%b	−0.19
	7	Other	92%	43%	0.77
		Above age 85	0.0	0.0	0.04

^aIncreases the gap with Sweden. Represents potential gains for Sweden if they achieve the levels of Denmark

^bIncreases the gap with Sweden in life expectancy

Note: the sum of percentages differs from 100% due to rounding