Life expectancy has fallen in Western Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic the most since World War II. In Eastern and Central Europe, it has fallen below the values registered after the collapse of the Soviet Union
According to a study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology. It examined the average age that people can live to 27 European countries, the United States and South America in Chile.
The largest decline in American men
Life expectancy, ie life expectancy, expresses the average number of years a person of a given age can live
Life expectancy has decreased for people born in 2020 compared to those born in 2019 in 27 of the 29 countries surveyed. They were followed by Lithuanian (down 1.7 years), Bulgarian (down 1.6 years) and Polish (down 1.5 years) men
for men in 11 countries and for women in eight. They attribute it to high covid mortality in people over the age of 60.
Researchers have seen the largest decline in life expectancy among Americans born in 2020, with life expectancy falling by an average of 1.7 years per year. 80 years. This was followed by Spaniards (by 1.5 years) and Bulgarians with Lithuanian, both of which decreased their life expectancy by 1.3 years.
Life expectancy increased slightly in only three countries – both
Losses greater than a year
Researchers also compared life expectancy with recent trends and found that, compared to 2015, decreased for women in 15 countries and for men in ten. Life expectancy was marked by the flu season in 2015.
The decline in life expectancy is higher in Central and Eastern Europe than after the collapse of the Soviet Union, with the exception of Hungary and Lithuania. In Western Europe, similar losses were last recorded during World War II, according to the study’s authors.
they have seen such a sharp decline in life expectancy in one year, most recently during World War II, “ the study’s author, José Manuel Aburto of Oxford University, told The Guardian.
“Women in eight countries and men in 11 countries experienced losses of more than a year. To put it in context, it took these countries an average of 5.6 years to increase life expectancy by one year.” said Aburto
The researchers in the study took into account problems related to the number of victims of covid, such as insufficient testing or poor classification of the cause of death, said study co-author Ridho Kashyap. However, according to them, it shows how much impact the covid pandemic had.
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