Advisory Board November 8, 2021
More than 28 million more years of life were lost than expected in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with Russia and the United States seeing the largest drops in average life expectancy, according to a recent study published in BMJ.
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Study details
For the study, researchers from Oxford University conducted a time series analysis of annual life expectancy data on all-cause mortality in 37 upper-middle and high-income countries. The researchers also looked at years of life lost, a metric developed by comparing the ages of people who died to their life expectancies.
The researchers found drops in life expectancy for both men and women in every country studied except for New Zealand, Norway,...
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