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Life expectancy returned at higher rates than before the pandemic for both men and women last year, INSTAT reported.
In 2022, women in our country lived an average of 80.9 years, while men lived 77.3 years.
Women lived 2.2 years longer than in 2021 and men 2.9 years longer, surpassing pre-pandemic levels.
Life expectancy marked a rapid increase, due to the numerical effect that the Covid-19 pandemic created with high mortality in the years 2020 and 2021, especially among men.
For the entire year 2021, a total of 30.6 thousand lives were lost in the country, registering the highest record level ever reached in the country's history.
Compared to the average of 2016-2019, when it was a normal period, deaths in 2021 have increased by 40%.
The median age (which divides the population into two equal halves) for men in 2022 is 38.1 years, while for women, 39.7 years.
The higher median age among women is explained by their higher life expectancy. In 2022, women live 3.6 years longer than men.
Life expectancy has improved significantly from the middle of the last century until now.
Albanians in the 1950s lived an average of only 54.4 years according to official INSTAT data, while from that time until 2022, life expectancy increased by 45%.
Historical data on life expectancy in the last 70 years shows that if the greatest improvement occurred in the two decades of 1950-1970, this indicator increased by 18 years or 33%.
From 54.4 years in 1950, the average life expectancy in 1970 reached 72.3 years.
Since that time, the life expectancy indicator in our country has grown at a low rate.
The population in Albania has changed over the last 30 years.
This comes, in particular, due to changes in the economic system, moving from a centralized economy to an open market system which has had its effect on births, deaths, migration, and certainly has an impact on the future of the population. Albanian./Monitor
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