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. 2021 Jul 6;10:e66590. doi: 10.7554/eLife.66590

Table 1. Comparison of observed gains in life expectancy at birth (e0) between 1990 and 2014 with the gains when the effects of smoking, obesity, and alcohol are removed ( = for non-lifestyle-attributable mortality), 18 European countries, by country and sex.

Table 1—source data 1. Data behind Table 1.
Country Gain e0 1990–2014
Observed Non-lifestyle-attributable mortality
Men Women Men Women
Austria 6.69 4.87 5.05 5.29
Belgium 5.88 4.18 4.22 4.90
Czech Republic 8.19 6.33 5.50 6.62
Denmark 6.54 4.94 4.98 5.01
Finland 7.19 4.96 5.19 5.56
France 6.56 4.47 4.95 4.84
Germany 6.52 4.92 4.99 5.45
Greece 3.80 4.18 3.44 4.23
Hungary 7.12 5.47 5.61 6.16
Ireland 7.03 5.52 5.97 5.90
Italy 6.92 4.91 4.67 4.97
Netherlands 6.05 3.20 4.20 4.50
Norway 6.58 4.29 6.10 5.21
Poland 7.41 6.13 6.56 7.04
Slovenia 8.20 6.00 5.62 6.39
Sweden 5.54 3.66 5.09 4.35
Switzerland 6.98 4.40 5.25 4.76
United Kingdom 6.41 4.49 4.89 4.67
Average 6.64 4.83 5.13 5.33
Min 3.80 3.20 3.44 4.23
Max 8.20 6.33 6.56 7.04
Variance 0.92 0.66 0.51 0.62
Annual change 0.28 0.20 0.21 0.22
Forerunners* 4.81 4.81 5.00 5.00

*French, Italian, and Spanish women (unweighted average). For Spanish women, the gain in e0 (1990–2014) was 5.05 years for all-cause mortality and 5.20 years for non-lifestyle-attributable mortality.