Life expectancy has increased in recent years, but deaths from the coronavirus may have an effect on that growing life expectancy, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reports on Friday. new research.
In the spring of 2020, nearly 9,000 more people than normal who were infected with the corona virus died. The extent to which the virus will affect life expectancy in 2020 depends, according to Statistics Netherlands, on developments in the rest of the year.
Statistics Netherlands has calculated five possible scenarios for the rest of the year, whereby in the best case life expectancy remains the same as in 2019. In the most unfavorable scenario, where a second wave will cause twice as many deaths as expected in the spring. the CBS that life expectancy will fall to the level of 2010.
Life expectancy increased faster in 2019 than in the previous seven years, when life expectancy increased by an average of two months for men and one month for women. In 2019, however, life expectancy increased by four months to 80.5 years for men and by three months to 83.6 years for women.
Compared to other European countries in 2018, the life expectancy of Dutch women was four months lower than average, but that of Dutch men was just two months higher than average.
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