• Global life expectancy drops two years since the start of the pandemic - World Socialist Web Site
    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/04/07/pers-a07.html

    A major study published in March in the journal Population and Development Review estimates that global life expectancy declined by roughly 0.92 years in 2020 and another 0.72 years in 2021. These are the first declines in global life expectancy since the United Nations began tracking this figure in 1950 and the worst since World War II killed an estimated more than 70 million people.

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    The study estimates that in 53 countries, including the United States, life expectancy declined by over two years during the worst 12-month period of the pandemic. […] However, multiple countries in the Asia-Pacific region where elimination strategies were employed, including China with a population of 1.4 billion people, saw life expectancy climb.

    Source: Global and National Declines in Life Expectancy: An End‐of‐2021 Assessment - Heuveline - 2022 - Population and Development Review - Wiley Online Library
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/padr.12477

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