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Houses are bigger, there are five times as many cars and we drink a lot more alcohol. Life in the Nordic countries has changed considerably since the start of the 60s.

  • Life expectancy for women in the Region is now almost 83 years old. At the start of the 60s the average life expectancy for women was 'only' 74 years-old.
  • At the start of the 60s over half of those who immigrated to the Nordic countries came from another Nordic country. Now most of them come from the rest of Europe.
  • Both at the start if the 60s and now, Icelandic women give birth to the most children in the Nordic Region.
  • Sales of alcohol have risen dramatically from the start of the 60s until now. In many of the Nordic countries, sales have doubled or even tripled. 
  • Today there are more than three times as many doctors per inhabitant as there were in the 60s.
  • Houses have become much bigger since the start of the 60s. In 1960 only every fifth home had more than 4 rooms. That is now the case for almost half of all homes.
  • At the start of the 60s men dominated in nearly all university courses. In 2010 it was just the opposite. 6 out of 10 of all university students today are women. In the 60s only every third student was a woman.
  • At the start of the 60s nearly every third Nordic citizen was employed in farming, forestry or fishing. In 2010 it was less than one in twenty.
  • At the start of the 60s Nordic citizens ate an average of 80kg of potatoes per year. Today we eat about 54kg. Now potatoes have been replaced by meat - today we eat 80kg of meat per year as opposed to 61kg in 1960.
  • Today we spend most of our money on our homes. At the start of the 60s we spent our money on food.

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