2023-10-04 09:00:00
Saccording to UN estimates, 134 million births and 67.1 million deaths were recorded worldwide in 2022. This latter number, down from the peak of 69.3 million reached in 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, is expected to decline significantly again this year to stand at 60.8 million. However, it would start to rise again from 2024 to rise to 91.6 million in 2050 and 122.9 million in 2100, exceeding the number of births at that date (111.5 million), according to demographers’ forecasts. .
Of the 67.1 million deaths recorded last year, 13.3 million were in India, 10.6 million in China, 3.3 million in the United States, 2.8 million in Nigeria, 2, 7 million in Indonesia and 2.4 million in Russia. In the European Union, 5.15 million deaths were recorded in 2022, including 1.07 million in Germany and 713,000 in Italy. France was in third place, with 675,000 deaths, more than in 2020 (668,000), also the highest level since the Second World War. A low point was reached in France in 1961, with 509,000 deaths.
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Of the overall number of deaths worldwide, just over half (50.3%) of them in 2021 concerned people aged 70 or over; 26.5% were between 50 and 69 years old; 13.2% between 15 and 49 years old; 1.2% were over 5 years old and under 14 years old and 8.9% were children under 5 years old.
READ ALSO Mortality down, birth rate up: demographic assessment of 2021Due to population aging and falling infant mortality, the age structure of deaths worldwide has undergone significant changes over the past thirty years. In 1990, just over a quarter of deaths (25.7%) still concerned children under the age of 5, while people aged over 70 represented only a third. In Japan, which constitutes an extreme case, 85.3% of people who died in 2021 were aged over 70, while the proportion of those aged 5-14 was only 0.06% and that of those under 5, by 0.16%.
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