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The average life expectancy of people across the world dropped by 1.6 years in the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new Lancetof census and other data showed this week, and the United States experienced the highest excess mortality rate in 2020 and 2021 when compared to similar high-wealth nations.
Of the 204 countries and territories studied by Lancet, only 32 saw an increase in expected life expectancy between 2019 and 2021. In the United States, an additional 1.59 per 1,000 people died in 2020 and 2021 than were expected to if not for the Covid-19 pandemic, the study showed, higher than the excess mortality rate of 1.04 seen globally.
Among the 37 countries similarly classified as “high income” by the Lancet study, the United States’ excess mortality rate was the highest, followed by Italy at 1.38 excess deaths, Monaco at 1.33 and Portugal at 1.05. By region, Southeast Asia saw the lowest rise in excess mortality at .24 per 1,000 and Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia saw the highest at 2.7.12.3%. That's the percentage of the 131 million global deaths in 2020 and 2021 that can be attributed to Covid-19, according to Lancet, either through direct infection or social, economic or behavioral changes associated with the pandemic.
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