SYNTHESIS INE@COVID-19, 2 jun 2021

June . 02 . 2021 SYNTH SIS IN @ COVID-19 www.ine.pt page 6/7 Communication Unit | tel: +351 21 842 61 10 | sci@ine.pt For women, this decennial increase was mainly the result of the reduction in mortality aged 60 and over; for men, the increase continued to come mostly from the reduction in mortality aged under 60. Life expectancy at age 65 in the period 2018-2020 reached: • 19.69 years for the total population; • 17.76 years for men (+0.06 years than in the period 2017-2019); • 21.11 years for women (+0.11 years than in the period 2017-2019). In the period 2018-2020, the majority of deaths (66.2%) occurred at ages 80 years and above. It was in this age group that approximately half of the male deaths and three-quarters of female deaths were concentrated. The most frequent age at death for men was 85 years, identical to that recorded ten years ago, and for women 88 years, one year higher than a decade before. In the last ten years, life expectancy at 65 has increased by 1.02 years for men and 1.08 years for women. A prospective exercise, using observed mortality data for the first four months of 2021 and mortality forecasts for the period May to December 2021, gives the following figures for the total population for the three years 2019-2021: • Life expectancy at birth: 80.83 years (-2.76 months than in 2018-2020); • Life expectancy at age 65: 19.44 years (-3 months than in 2018-2020). Life expectancy at age 65, Portugal, 1988-1990 to 2018-2020 13.92 14.76 16.74 17.76 16.97 18.11 20.03 21.11 15.6 16.63 18.59 19.69 5 10 15 20 25 1988-1990 1989-1991 1990-1992 1991-1993 1992-1994 1993-1995 1994-1996 1995-1997 1996-1998 1997-1999 1998-2000 1999-2001 2000-2002 2001-2003 2002-2004 2003-2005 2004-2006 2005-2007 2006-2008 2007-2009 2008-2010 2009-2011 2010-2012 2011-2013 2012-2014 2013-2015 2014-2016 2015-2017 2016-2018 2017-2019 2018-2020 Years Males Females Total March 2020 to February 2021: 12 months marked by the pandemic The comparison of statistical results for the first year of the pandemic (March 2020 to February 2021) with the previous 12 months (March 2019 to February 2020), revealed: • The average monthly number of deaths (11,170) increased by 21.9%. This value, combined with the reduction in live births (-4.8%), caused the negative natural balance to worsen from 23,441 in the pre-pandemic year to 51,680 in the first year of the pandemic; • Employment decreased by 2.1%, the unemployment rate increased from 6.7% to 7.2%, and the labour underutilisation rate grew from 12.9% to 14.5%. Policy measures to support employment and income, such as the simplified Lay-off, will have prevented the achievement of labour market outcomes similar to those seen during the adjustment programme of the Portuguese economy; • GDP contracted by 8.4% in volume; More information available at: Portuguese life tables – 2018-2020 (28 May 2021)

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