In 2020, life expectancy at birth in Italy was reduced by 1.2 years due to the pandemic. It now stands at 82 years (79.7 years for men and 84.4 for women). Until 2019 this indicator had always been growing. At the provincial level, the areas most affected by the coronavirus such as Bergamo, Cremona and Lodi recorded a decline for men of 4.3 and 4.5 years. For women residing in Bergamo, life expectancy was reduced by 3.2 years, in Cremona and Lodi by 2.8 years. The lethality of Covid in fact is lower in the female sex. These changes – writes Istat – “bring important changes in the ranking of life expectancy by province, with Lodi, Bergamo, Cremona, Brescia, Piacenza and Parma which, compared to 2019, have lost more than 50 positions”.
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Piacenza recorded an important loss (-3.8 years for men and minus 2.8 for women). Less marked reductions are observed in Brescia (-2.5 years), Pavia (-2.4 years), Vercelli (-2.3 years), Lecco and Parma (-2.2 years) and, in the South, in the provinces of Foggia (-1.7) and Enna (-1.5 years). Siena, on the other hand, is the only Italian province not to have suffered worsening (83.7 years in both 2019 and 2020).
“We believe this reduction is due to this year and a half of Covid and we are working to increase life expectancy across the region again.” This is the comment of the Vice President and Councilor for Welfare of the Lombardy Region Letizia Moratti.
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