More Poles have died in 2022 than in 2019, which means that Poles are now dying more than before the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2022, 408,000 people died in Poland. This is 30,000 more than in 2019. Specifically, 56,000 more Poles died in January-November 2022 compared to last year.
“We expected that there would be more deaths in 2022 than in 2019 due to an ageing population. But it is worse than we expected due to the health debt,” stresses demographer Professor Piotr Szukalski, as quoted by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.
Poland performs exceptionally badly in terms of the number of post-pandemic deaths within the EU and it ranked third in Europe, after Bulgaria and Romania, for excess deaths during the pandemic.
Life expectancy has also decreased in Poland since the pandemic by 2.4 years.
Poles die most frequently from cardiovascular diseases, cancers and respiratory conditions. In contrast, the most common causes of death worldwide are ischaemic heart disease, stroke and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
As many as 41,000 people died of COVID-19 in 2020 and 91,000 in 2021, when they accounted for 18 % of all deaths.
In total, over 110,000 Poles have died from COVID.
(Bartosz Sieniawski | EURACTIV.pl)
Source: euractiv.com
