In a stunning reversal of decades of progress, global life expectancy at birth fell 1.6 years from 2019 to 2021, with 16 million of 131 million total deaths in 2020 and 2021 directly or indirectly attributable to COVID-19, reveals one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind published yesterday in The Lancet.

 

The Global Burden of Diseases (GBD), Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2021 Collaborators analyzed trends in death rates and life expectancy in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations from 1950 to 2021, with a focus on the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic period.

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About 131 million people around the world died from any cause in 2020-2021 combined, with 15.9 million more deaths than expected due to COVID-19 infection or pandemic-related social, economic, or behavioral factors, such as delays in seeking healthcare.

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Global life expectancy climbed 22.7 years from 1950 to 2021, from 49.0 to 71.7 years, but from 2019 to 2021, it dropped 1.6 years, reversing historical trends. Thirty-two countries (15.7%) saw increased life expectancy.

 

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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/2022-covid-pandemic-had-shaved-16-years-global-life-expectancy-research-reveals

 

 

COVID-19 had greater impact on life expectancy than previously known, but child mortality rates continued to decline during the pandemic

Published March 11, 2024

 

A new study published in The Lancet reveals never-before-seen details about staggeringly high mortality from the COVID-19 pandemic within and across countries. Places such as Mexico City, Peru, and Bolivia had some of the largest drops in life expectancy from 2019 to 2021. The research, which presents updated estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2021, provides the most comprehensive look at the pandemic’s toll on human health to date, indicating that global life expectancy dropped by 1.6 years from 2019 to 2021, a sharp reversal from past increases.

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“For adults worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a more profound impact than any event seen in half a century, including conflicts and natural disasters,” says co-first author Dr. Austin E. Schumacher, Acting Assistant Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. “Life expectancy declined in 84% of countries and territories during this pandemic, demonstrating the devastating potential impacts of novel pathogens.”

 

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https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/newsroom/news-releases/covid-19-had-greater-impact-life-expectancy-previously-known

 

 

More scaremongering.

Study's excess deaths related to COVID for the years 2020 and 2021, global and by selected countries:

(includes deaths directly due to SARS-CoV-2 infection and those indirectly due to other social, economic, or behavioural changes associated with the pandemic).

 

Global -- 15.9 million

Thailand -- 63,000

United Kingdom -- 137,000

United States -- 1,021,000

 

 

 

 

 

Main findings
"Our comprehensive set of updated demographic metrics
indicate profound changes in the global health landscape
during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic relative
to historical trends. Long-term trends of decreasing
mortality were superseded by marked increases in
mortality rates in age groups older than 15 years during
2020 and 2021; in contrast, mortality in children under
5 years remained largely unaffected by the pandemic and
continued to decrease globally. Global life expectancy
declined sharply during 2020 and 2021, reversing the
longstanding trend of life expectancy improvement. Age-
standardised rates demonstrated the pandemic was
disproportionately severe in countries within
sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, south Asia, and
Latin America."

 

https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736(24)00476-8

 

2 hours ago, Dolf said:

More scaremongering.

Yes, you find it difficult to distinguish between facts and opinion. Your opinion is not a fact, these stats are facts.