- Life expectancy for the entire population in Mexico decreased by 4 years.
- This, as a result of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the calculation made by Patrick Heuveline.
- The study indicates that the increase in the number of deaths during the pandemic had a substantial impact on global life expectancy.
The life expectancy for the entire population in Mexico decreased 4 years, including health professionals such as doctors and nurses. This, as a result of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the calculation made by Patrick Heuveline, an academic at the University of California.
Mexico is in the group of countries most affected in this area, along with Peru (5.6 years), Guatemala (4.8), Paraguay (4.7), Russia (4.3), Bolivia (4.1), Bulgaria (4.1) and North Macedonia ( 4.1 years).
The study indicates that the increase in the number of deaths during the pandemic had a substantial impact on global life expectancy.
After 69 years of uninterrupted increase, from 1950 to 2019, global life expectancy is estimated to have decreased by 0.92 years between 2019 and 2020 and by another 0.72 years between 2020 and 2021.
The scientist recalculated life expectancies taking into account the measurement of excess mortality detailed by sex and age group; It was later compared with the projected global life expectancies without a pandemic, revealing the differentiated change for each region.
The decline in global life expectancy appears to have stopped in the last quarter of 2021, according to the measurement.
COVID-19 caused the largest decline in life expectancy since World War II
COVID-19: a set of data on mortality from 29 countries, covering most of Europe, the United States and Chile. He found that 27 countries experienced reductions in life expectancy in 2020, and on a scale that wiped out years of progress on mortality.
27 of the 29 countries experienced reductions in life expectancy in 2020
The research team assembled an unprecedented data set on mortality from 29 countries. These cover most of Europe, the US and Chile, countries for which official death records had been published for 2020.
They found that 27 of 29 countries experienced reductions in life expectancy in 2020. And on a scale that wiped out years of progress in mortality, according to the article published today in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
The last time such large declines were observed was in World War II.
Women in 15 countries and men in 10 countries were found to have lower birth expectancy in 2020 than in 2015, a year in which life expectancy was already negatively affected by a major flu season.
According to the co-lead author of the study, Dr. José Manuel Aburto, “for Western European countries such as Spain, England and Wales, Italy, Belgium, among others. The last time such large declines in life expectancy at birth were seen in a single year was during World War II.”
These countries took an average of 5.6 years to achieve a one-year increase in life expectancy
But, he says, the scale of life expectancy losses was stark in most of the countries studied, with 22 countries included in our study experiencing losses greater than half a year in 2020.
“Women in eight countries and men in 11 countries experienced losses greater than one year. year. For context, it took these countries on average 5.6 years to achieve a one-year increase in life expectancy recently – progress wiped out over the course of 2020 by COVID-19.”
In most of the 29 countries, men experienced a greater decline in life expectancy than women. The largest decreases in life expectancy were seen among men.
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