Life expectancy likely to fall due to coronavirus, experts say
4 years, 9 months ago

Life expectancy likely to fall due to coronavirus, experts say

NL Times  

The coronavirus will likely mean that the life expectancy in the Netherlands will fall this year, experts from Statistic Netherlands and the University of Amsterdam, and the association for intensive care NVIC said to newspaper AD. He expects that the average life expectancy will decrease by "one or two years". That means that the Dutch person will become less old" "You will at least see the higher death rate due to corona reflected in life expectancy for this year," Statistics Netherlands sociologist Tanja Traag said to the newspaper. Whether life expectancy will also decrease next year and thereafter, is "more difficult to predict", she said. "The average life expectancy of people over 65 is really going down," Jan Latten, emeritus professor of social demography at the University of Amsterdam, said to AD.

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Netherlands will have 19 million residents in 2037, 20 million by 2058
3 weeks, 3 days ago

Netherlands will have 19 million residents in 2037, 20 million by 2058

NL Times  

The population of the Netherlands is projected to continue growing over the coming decades, albeit at a slower pace, according to new forecasts from Statistics Netherlands. The country is expected to reach 19 million residents in 2037 and 20 million by 2058, driven primarily by migration and increased life expectancy. CBS’s 2024-2070 population projections show that the current annual growth …

Average Dutch 65-year-old can look forward to another 21 years of life
2 months ago

Average Dutch 65-year-old can look forward to another 21 years of life

NL Times  

People who turn 65 in 2030 will have an average of 20.96 years left to live, according to CBS. Life expectancy in 2030 falls slightly in the latest forecast compared to the previous forecast, in which it was set at exactly 21 years. Due to the higher mortality rate during the coronavirus pandemic, the life expectancy of 65-year-olds fell to …

Global life expectancy to increase by nearly five years by 2050 – study
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Global life expectancy to increase by nearly five years by 2050 – study

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In addition to an increase in life expectancy overall, we have found that the disparity …

Global life expectancy fell by 1.6 years during first two years of COVID-19 pandemic but Australia bucked the trend, study finds
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Global life expectancy fell by 1.6 years during first two years of COVID-19 pandemic but Australia bucked the trend, study finds

ABC  

In short: A new study has found that 84 per cent of countries around the globe experienced a drop in life expectancy during the COVID-19 pandemic from 2019 to 2021. A new study has found global life expectancy fell by 1.6 years during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, but Australia was among the few countries to buck …

Column: America’s decline in life expectancy speaks volumes about our problems
1 year, 9 months ago

Column: America’s decline in life expectancy speaks volumes about our problems

LA Times  

U.S. average life expectancies are lowest in the Southeast, highest on the West Coast and the Northeast. “COVID-19 has erased two decades of life expectancy growth in the U.S., whereas the average life expectancy for comparable countries has decreased only marginally, to 2018 levels,” the Health System Tracker found. “America is seeing the greatest gap in life expectancy across regions …

Declining U.S. life expectancy fell further in 2021 due to COVID and drug overdoses
2 years ago

Declining U.S. life expectancy fell further in 2021 due to COVID and drug overdoses

LA Times  

Deb Walker, of Chester, Vt., visits the grave of her daughter Brooke Goodwin, who died in March 2021 after a drug overdose. The numbers, released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, mark the second consecutive year of decline in average life expectancy, a streak that hasn’t happened in more than a century. The year 2021 saw 106,699 …

Covid pandemic led to prolonged decline in global life expectancy, suggests study
2 years, 2 months ago

Covid pandemic led to prolonged decline in global life expectancy, suggests study

Firstpost  

London: COVID-19 has caused a prolonged decline in life expectancy levels, leading to global mortality changes unprecedented in the last 70 years, according to a study. Previous global epidemics have seen fairly rapid “bounce backs” to life expectancy levels, the researchers said. This East-West divide in life expectancy during COVID-19 generally reflects bigger losses in countries which had lower pre-pandemic …

U.S. Life Expectancy Drops Again; CDC Officials Blame Coronavirus
2 years, 4 months ago

U.S. Life Expectancy Drops Again; CDC Officials Blame Coronavirus

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING NEW YORK — U.S. life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling by nearly a year from 2020, according to a government report being released Wednesday. But it’s likely the declines in 2020 and 2021 will stand as the first two consecutive years of declining life expectancy in the U.S. since the early 1960s, …

US life expectancy plunged again in 2021, down nearly a year: CDC
2 years, 4 months ago

US life expectancy plunged again in 2021, down nearly a year: CDC

Al Jazeera  

COVID-19 blamed for about half of life expectancy decline followed by heart disease, drug overdoses, suicide. Life expectancy fell in the United States in 2021 for the second year in a row, driven by COVID-19 deaths, according to provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The nearly one-year decline in life expectancy from 2020 to 76.1 …

Europe faces ageing population nightmare in ‘absolute collapse’
2 years, 5 months ago

Europe faces ageing population nightmare in ‘absolute collapse’

The Telegraph  

Europe faces a demographic nightmare as the pandemic accelerates its population crunch, leaving nations grappling with shrinking workforces and rising numbers of elderly to support. New projections from the United Nations show an already serious, decades-long slowdown in population growth - featuring falling fertility and a surge in deaths - has been worsened by Covid. The impacts span the entire …

Healthy life expectancy decreases among all educational levels
3 years, 2 months ago

Healthy life expectancy decreases among all educational levels

NL Times  

Despite life expectancy rising for the middle- and higher-educated people in the Netherlands, healthy life expectancy dropped among all educational levels; the Volkskrant reported based on figures by Statistics Netherlands. All educational levels saw a decrease in the number of years spent in good health, also known as healthy life expectancy. The life expectancy for people with a lower education …

Covid-19 slashed life expectancy by most since World War II: Oxford study
3 years, 3 months ago

Covid-19 slashed life expectancy by most since World War II: Oxford study

Hindustan Times  

The coronavirus disease pandemic reduced life expectancy last year by the largest amount since World War II, news agency Reuters reported citing a study by Oxford University. The study showed that life expectancy dropped by more than six months compared with 2019 in 22 countries and reductions in life expectancy were seen in 27 countries out of the 29, including …

Covid-19 pandemic triggers biggest fall in life expectancy since World War 2: Study
3 years, 3 months ago

Covid-19 pandemic triggers biggest fall in life expectancy since World War 2: Study

India Today  

The Covid-19 pandemic brought life expectancy down by the largest amount since World War II, as per a study published by Oxford University on Monday. In 22 of the 29 countries examined in the study, life expectancy was more than six months lower than what it was in 2019. According to the Oxford University study, most life expectancy reductions in …

US life expectancy fell by more than a year during pandemic – and lags behind other high-income nations, studies suggest
3 years, 6 months ago

US life expectancy fell by more than a year during pandemic – and lags behind other high-income nations, studies suggest

CNN  

CNN — Two new studies reveal just how much of a toll the coronavirus pandemic has taken on life expectancy in the United States, which lags behind other high-income nations. “The change in life expectancy among the Black population was smaller than projected but remained much larger than that for the White population,” the researchers write in their study. “The …

COVID-19 pandemic caused US life expectancy to decrease by nearly TWO YEARS to 76.8
3 years, 6 months ago

COVID-19 pandemic caused US life expectancy to decrease by nearly TWO YEARS to 76.8

Daily Mail  

The COVID-19 pandemic caused life expectancy in the U.S. to decrease by nearly two years, a new study suggests. A new study found that life expectancy in the U.S. fell by nearly two years from 78.8 years in 2018 to 76.8 years in 2020, which is the biggest drop since World War II when life expectancy fell by 2.9 years …

Covid cuts Italy life expectancy by almost one year
3 years, 9 months ago

Covid cuts Italy life expectancy by almost one year

Live Mint  

Average life expectancy in Italy has been shortened by almost one year to 82.3 years because of the coronavirus pandemic, national statistics office Istat said on Wednesday. Estimates for 2020 "suggest a sudden halt and a significant reversal of the trend of continuous improvement in life expectancy observed in recent years", Istat said. Before the pandemic took its toll, life …

US life expectancy plunged in 2020 by most since World War II
3 years, 10 months ago

US life expectancy plunged in 2020 by most since World War II

Hindustan Times  

US life expectancy plunged by a full year in the first half of 2020, the biggest drop since World War II, as the Covid-19 pandemic ravaged the country. A recent research paper found that the overall toll may be even higher once indirect effects are taken into account, including people who died because they delayed seeking treatment for other conditions. …

Study projects coronavirus pandemic will reduce US life expectancy in 2020
3 years, 11 months ago

Study projects coronavirus pandemic will reduce US life expectancy in 2020

CNN  

CNN — The coronavirus pandemic is not only having an immediate impact in terms of the deaths of thousands of Americans, it’s also taking more than a year off the average US life expectancy. Consequently, Covid-19 is expected to reverse over 10 years of progress made in closing the Black−White gap in life expectancy and reduce the previous Latino mortality …

Life Expectancy Could Decline Across the World and Coronavirus Pandemic is to Blame for
4 years, 3 months ago

Life Expectancy Could Decline Across the World and Coronavirus Pandemic is to Blame for

News 18  

Researchers now claim that Covid-19 pandemic could cause a short-term decline in life expectancy in many regions of the world, unless the spread of the disease is contained. The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, examined the impact of COVID-19-related deaths on life expectancy for four broad world regions across multiple rates of infection and age groups. They found …

Life expectancy for Dutch goes down, pension funds benefit: prognosis
4 years, 3 months ago

Life expectancy for Dutch goes down, pension funds benefit: prognosis

Dutch News  

For the first time in a decade the life expectancy of the Dutch is expected to decline, which is good news for pension funds, the two-yearly prognosis by the society of actuaries shows. The new figures, which do not include the effects of coronavirus on life expectancy, predict that babies born in 2021 will now have one year less to …

Retirement age increase in 2025 seems unlikely as life expectancy stagnates
5 years, 2 months ago

Retirement age increase in 2025 seems unlikely as life expectancy stagnates

NL Times  

A new forecast by Statistics Netherlands on the life expectancy of 65-year-old Netherlands residents shows that in 2025 they will still have around 20.75 years to live, half a week more than the previous forecast. The state retirement age is linked to these life expectancy figures. As the difference between the life expectancy in 2024 and 2025 is small at …

Life expectancy increasing in NL, but only for highly-educated
5 years, 4 months ago

Life expectancy increasing in NL, but only for highly-educated

NL Times  

The life expectancy for 65-year-old people living in the Netherlands increased over the past years, but only for highly educated people. Between 2015 and 2018, the life expectancy for highly educated 65-year-old women was 25 years, over 4 years longer than that of their lower educated peers. The life expectancy for highly educated men between 2015 and 2018 was over …

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