(AGENPARL) – WIEN (AUSTRIA), gio 14 gennaio 2021
Press release: 12.414-005/21
Vienna, 2021-01-14
– According to first preliminary results by Statistics Austria, 90 123
deaths have been reported so far for the period from 1 January to 31 December
2020. This number will continue to rise in the upcoming weeks, as the
registry offices are expected to report additional deaths from the previous
year. Moreover, this figure does not yet include deaths of Austrians
that occurred abroad. Comparing these 90 123 deaths in 2020 with the
average of the last five years (for consistency reasons also excluding
deaths that occurred abroad), there is an increase of 10.9%. The increase
in the number of deaths affected men (+13.7%) to a significantly greater
extent than women (+8.2%).
The available data also allows a first preliminary
estimate of life expectancy in 2020: “Life expectancy in the Corona
year 2020 has fallen by around half a year compared to 2019 and is now
78.9 years for men and 83.7 years for women. With a strong spread of
vaccinations and after the pandemic has been overcome, it can be assumed
that life expectancy will return to the growth trend in the medium term.
Experience from stronger influenza years shows a similar trend. However,
the possible long-term consequences of surviving corona diseases are
still open”, says Statistics Austria Director General Tobias Thomas.
A look at the preliminary results on the numbers of
deaths in the individual calendar weeks shows that in calendar week
52 – from 21 to 27 December 2020 – 2 114 people died in Austria,
around 22% more than the average of the years 2015 to 2019 for the same
calendar week. In calendar week 53 – from 28 December 2020 to 3 January
2021 – 1 964 deaths were registered, which is 28% more than in 2015,
the latest year with 53 calendar weeks. However, there has been a downward
trend in weekly deaths since the peak in calendar week 49, when 2 543
people died and the five-year average was exceeded by almost 59%. In
the last three weeks of 2020, the values remained at a relatively high
level, but were already slightly lower than at the peaks of the strong
flu wave in January 2017.
Further information on deaths
and life expectancy
can be found on our website, where an interactive web application – the
Atlas of Deaths – also graphically illustrates the development
and regional distribution. Detailed results can be found in Statistics
Austria’s open data repository.
For more detailed information, please refer to the German
version.
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