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According to a study published by the Institute of Demographic Studies (INED), published Wednesday, March 22, life expectancy has hardly increased for three years. Doctissimo enlightens you.
According to the latest figures published by the Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), the life expectancy of men and women has not increased over the past three years.
An ever higher life expectancy for women
According to the results of their work, the life expectancy for men was 79.3 years in 2022, with one month of life gained compared to 2021. For women, the result stagnates with a life expectancy set at 85, 2 years, always much higher than that of men.
Another key element of this study: the level of life expectancy of French people in general has not caught up with that before the Covid-19 pandemic. The figures in 2019 were 79.7 years for men and 85.6 years for women. In addition to Covid-19, which contributed to this situation, the author, Gilles Pison, mentions the flu and the various heat waves. “The 2021-2022 flu was late, that of 2022-2023 is early and the three heat waves caused deaths. But it is possible that the underlying trend has remained and that life expectancy will jump in 2023“.
Births down, natural balance still positive
Alongside this life expectancy, INED also assesses births. These are declining, with 723,000 births in 2022, while the figure reached 742,000 in 2021.
Finally, INED notes that the difference between births and deaths has been divided by four in France, in ten years. The natural balance is still positive (56,000), but about 100,000 fewer babies are born each year, and about 100,000 more people die. On the other hand, the Covid-19 “did not affect the number of births, only the season of children born in 2021. The first lockdown had a significant effect on conception postponements“concludes Gilles Pison.