The Covid-19 epidemic has driven up the death rate over the past year, according to figures from INSEE.

As for life expectancy at birth, it fell by 6 months in 2020. This increase in death primarily concerns those over 70 and varies by region. 

Soon 100,000 dead in France since the start of the health crisis.

According to INSEE, the Covid-19 epidemic has caused an increase in mortality never seen in France since 1949. That year, another virus, that of the Italian flu, had ravaged France and caused the 60,000 people died in one year.

In 2020, mortality increased by 9% and life expectancy at birth fell by 6 months compared to the previous year.

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Territorial disparity

INSEE specifies that in March-April 2020, 27,300 additional deaths occurred compared to the same period of 2019, an increase of 27%.

This increase in deaths mainly concerns those over 70, more likely to declare a severe form of Covid, and men, more affected than women.

This study also reveals a France cut in two by the virus.

The epidemic kills more in Île-de-France, in the Grand-Est and in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. 

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A rising death rate, but which remains within the European average, since the number of deaths has increased in almost all of the countries of the Old Continent.

The increase in the number of deaths following the pandemic was even greater in Belgium, Italy and Spain than in France.