His influence pandemic from corona virus And increase in mortality considered to be the main culprits for the decline in life expectancy in Europe.

According to his latest Eurostat Relative to 2021, European life expectancy has fallen from 81.3 years of life in 2019 80.4 in 2020 and 80.1 in 2021. A significant reduction, which, however, does not reflect the whole picture, since the pandemic did not affect the different countries and peoples of Europe in the same way and with the same intensity, and thus the change in life expectancy shows a significant spread between different states.

East-West division

Looking at the map of Europe from the point of view of the reduction in life expectancy, one can clearly see a significant difference between the countries of Western Europe and the countries of the East. No Western country has experienced a recession of more than a year, and no Eastern country has experienced a recession of less than a year and a half.

The situation in Greece

Our case seems to be somewhat intermediate, and it depends on which geographic classification we prefer to include the country in. For the West, we are the country with the worst indicators and the largest reduction in life expectancy, while for the Eastern and Balkan countries of the EU, the situation looks clearly better.

In particular, life expectancy in Greece has declined from 81.7 years in 2019, in 81.4 in 2020 and decreased further in 2021, reaching 80.2. There is a significant differentiation between the sexes, which is an international phenomenon. women they are expected to live five years longer than men.

However, even within Greece there were significant differences. OUR continental country seems, according to Eurostat, clearly shorter lifespan than insular. None of the island regions experienced a decline of more than one year, however, North Aegean region seems to have seen increase by 0.4 years. On the other hand, its regions Northern Greece And Thessaly they report the biggest decline since Central Macedonia keep "first" with abbreviation 2.4 years and then its circumference Thessaly With 2.3.