The coronavirus caused the average life expectancy of people around the world to drop by 1.6 years during the first two years of the pandemic. That marked a sharp turnaround during a decades-long rise in global life expectancy.
The death rate for people over the age of 15 increased by 22% for men and 17% for women during this period, the researchers estimated. Mexico City, Peru and Bolivia were some of the places where life expectancy fell the most. But there was some good news in the updated estimates of the IHME Global Burden of Disease Study.