Original title: British study says COVID-19 epidemic shortens average life expectancy in Europe and the United States Source: CCTV News client
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A recent study by the University of Oxford in the UK showed that the COVID-19 pandemic shortened average life expectancy in many European and American countries in 2020, the biggest drop since the second World War.
The study involved a number of European countries as well as 29 countries, including the United States and Chile, among which 27 countries reduced their average life expectancy in 2020 and 22 countries reduced their average life expectancy by more than 6 months.
In addition, in most of the countries covered by the Oxford University study, the average life expectancy of men fell more than that of women, while that of men in the United States fell the most, by 2.2 years compared with 2019.
The increase in deaths in the United States is mainly concentrated in people under the age of 60 who have not yet retired, while in Europe it is concentrated in people over the age of 60.
(editor Xiang Dan)