The world is still recovering from the worst pandemic in the modern world. The shock of the pandemic has made the life expectancy go down in a lot of countries due to the way the virus was. The life expectancy was high in most countries, however due to Covid-19… the expectancy went down.
Covid-19 took a massive hit to many countries around the world and has been awful for many different people around the world.
“The scale of the worsening losses, particularly in Eastern Europe, are really quite sad,” says Ridhi Kashyap, professor of demography at the University of Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, and one of the authors of the report.
In 2020, the expectancy changed a lot after the virus hit. In England and Wales, period life expectancy dropped from 81.7 years in 2019 to 80.7 in 2020. A year later it was up only a little – to 80.9. Stated the BBC.
Period life expectancy figures for Northern Ireland and Scotland in 2021 were 80.3 and 78.5 respectively.
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The UK’s Office for National Statistics will publish its data on life expectancy for 2021 at the end of this year.
“Pre-pandemic life expectancy in the UK didn’t compare very well with much of Western Europe, We were already lagging behind – we were seeing the slowest improvements in life expectancy, We went into this virus with a health and social care system that was overstretched – long waiting lists, and fewer beds, nurses and doctors than most Western European or high-income countries.” says Dr Veena Raleigh, senior fellow at UK health charity, The Kings Fund
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