Covid-19 everywhere in Europe negatively affected life expectancy, but in Albania, the virus seems to have further damaged life expectancy in people living in the center of the country, an area which is even more economically developed.
Detailed Eurostat data show that the life expectancy of the population in the central region of Albania (Tirana-Elbasan) in 2020 decreased by 2.8 years compared to 2019. The population in this region of our country had a life expectancy of 78.9 years from 81.6 that had in 2019. In contrast in other counties the decline in life expectancy was milder compared to the center of the country.
In the south of the country life expectancy fell 1.2 years going to 76.2 years in 2020, from 77.4 in 2019. While in the North region life expectancy fell by 1.4 years going to 77.3 years, from 78.7 which was in 2019.
According to internal data from INSTAT, an Albanian in 2020 lived an average of 77.3 years with a decrease from 2018 by about 3.3 months as a result of the increase in deaths at a young age from the coronavirus pandemic.
In 2020, life expectancy at birth in Albania was 75.2 years for men and 79.6 years for women. This means that women are expected to live about 4 years longer than men.
Albanians, Macedonians shortened their lives in Europe by the Covid-19 pandemic
Life expectancy at birth of Albanians in 2020 was reduced by 1.7 years in 2020, as a result of the consequences of the pandemic. But the latest data published by Eurostat show that the consequences of Covid-19 in Albania and Northern Macedonia have been the most severe. In Northern Macedonia, life expectancy was reduced by 2.2 years, more than in all other European countries. Albania ranks second, after Northern Macedonia. Data on Kosovo are missing. For all of Europe, life expectancy dropped by -0.9 years.
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