COVID-19: life expectancy mostly continued to decline in 2021

Shift in deaths from the very old to people in middle age. MPIDR - Globally, life expectancy did not recover last year after the mortality shock due to the 2020 pandemic. At the same time, differences between countries are widening. A historical comparison of data, however, offers hope for rapid improvement. Those are the findings of a new study by Max Planck Researcher Jonas Schöley and his colleagues at Oxford University's Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science. A research team with Jonas Schöley, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany examined changes in life expectancy in 29 countries and published the study in ,,Nature Human Behaviour". Most countries in the study, including the United States, Chile, and 27 countries in Europe, saw period life expectancy decline for a second year in a row.