This week, I considered life expectancy over a span of years in Denmark, Iceland and Greenland.
When I tried to look for life expectancy charts on arcticstat, I met some difficulties, which mostly consisted in the lack of data available. Originally I was looking for life expectancy data in Canada, but then realized that only some Arctic provinces were added to the database. Also, the years recorded differed greatly between the countries. I was able to find quite ample data for Iceland, however, Greenland data was more challenging, as the data uploaded on the website stopped around the year 2008. For Canada, the timeframes were different again. I decided then to look for statistics on Denmark, which might give interesting material for comparison too, as it technically has a relationship with Greenland.
The data shows the life expectancy of the male and female population from 0 years old. It is noticeable that Iceland and Denmark show very similar data, the life expectancy of Icelandic females being the highest of the three. The life expectancy in Greenland is the lowest of all, but notably the female population lives longer than the male population. An analysis of the data would need to be informed by a variety of factors, such as climate, nutrition, environmental challenges, and more factors that influence wellbeing.
The data I used for this was extracted from the following document: https://www.arcticstat.org/doc/document/2011-02-17-14.pdf
Excellent! Thank you for sticking with it and finding the data!