There was an 'unprecedented increase' in the number of deaths during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, new analysis shows.
Global life expectancy fell by 1.6 years during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, but Australia was one of the few countries where people were still expected to live longer. A new study published on Tuesday in medical journal The Lancet provides the most comprehensive look at the pandemic's toll on human health so far.
It is one of the first studies to fully evaluate demographic trends, using data about age and other factors, to analyse mortality rates and how these impacted COVID-19 outcomes. "Age-standardised rates demonstrated the pandemic was disproportionately severe in countries within sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, south Asia, and Latin America," the report said. In Latin America and the Caribbean, life expectancy fell by as much as 3.7 years.
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