Let's look not at all death rates over the past 10 years, but at deaths from COVID-19[1]: Norway [locked down]: 6.17 deaths/100K people Sweden [no lockdown]:

Let's look not at all death rates over the past 10 years, but at deaths from COVID-19[1]: Norway [locked down]: 6.17 deaths/100K people Sweden [no lockdown]: 65.61 deaths/100K people [1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality as of November 28, 2020 at 03:00 AM EST.