As a result of a coronavirus infection in 2020 in 37 developed countries of the world, 28 million years of living of citizens were lost. This is reported by Kommersant with reference to the International Demographers Groups.
The greatest such losses were in Russia, Bulgaria, Latvia, the USA and Poland. According to the study, record indicators in these countries provided high mortality from the virus among people with respect to young age.
It is noted that the basis for calculating and analyzing steel data on 37 developed countries, which are available in the international database of human mortality The Human Mortality Database.
Specialists clarified that the death of people who died directly from COVID-19 were completely influenced by the impact on the demographic situation. In addition, it is impossible to reliably compare approaches to the accounting of those who died in different countries.
More accurate is the calculation of supercurrentness – the difference between the projected to the pandemic of coronavirus infection and the number of deaths actually recorded at the end of last year. Also taken into account changes in life expectancy indicators, and the number of years, which was lost due to premature deaths.
It turned out that in most countries under study, the indicator of the expected lifespan of life was predictably declined at the end of last year. In Russia, he fell for 2.32 years, in the United States – for 1.98 years, in Bulgaria – for 1.75 years, in Latvia – for 1.61 years old, to Poland – for 1.36 years.
It is noted that the indicator of the expected life expectancy of 2020 has not changed in South Korea, Norway and Denmark. At the same time in New Zealand and in Taiwan, he grown (0.66 and 0.35, respectively).
An indicator of years of life, which were lost due to premature death, according to last year, according to the results of the study, for 31 developed countries amounted to 28 million years, of which 17.3 million years have come for men.