Germany's life expectancy is on a steady decline.
Germany is among the poorest performers in Western Europe when it comes to life expectancy and is currently losing ground. A recent study conducted by the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research found that this decline in life expectancy has been happening for several decades.
In the year 2000, Germany's life expectancy was approximately 0.7 years less than the average life expectancy at birth in Western Europe. By 2022, this gap had widened to 1.7 years. BiB's first author, Pavel Grigoriev, estimated that the beginning of the 21st century marked a significant shift in the dynamics of mortality trends in Germany. Since then, the mortality gap between Germany and other Western European nations has been growing at a steady pace.
According to the study, after reunification, East Germany initially made considerable progress in reducing the difference between its own mortality rate and that of West Germany and Western Europe. Increased financial investment in healthcare played a significant role in this improvement. However, since the turn of the millennium, both western and eastern Germany have lost ground to their Western European counterparts.
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The decline in Germany's life expectancy makes it stand out as one of the poorest performers in life expectancy among Western European countries. The Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research attributed this trend to a study spanning several decades.
Source: www.ntv.de
